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Scottland, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61924. It stands on Bonwell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Scottland quadrangle. It stands 636 feet above sea level.

Scottland within Edgar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

10,290 words on this township

The History of Edgar County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County--its Cities, Towns, &c. : Directory of Its Tax-payers; War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map of Edgar County; History of Illinois, Illustrated; History of the Northwest, Illustrated; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c., &c. Illustrated, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Prairie Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Prairie Township - 10,290 words.

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Raven3.1 miles17
Chrisman3.6 miles15
Illiana (historical)3.8 miles17
Scotts4.2 miles15
Quaker (historical)4.6 miles17
Logan4.6 miles17
Woodyard5.0 miles15
Bloomfield5.1 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on ScottlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7438136The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 418150. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.