Scovel, Illinois

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.

• 1947 USGS Cullom quadrangle1:62500
• 1949 USGS Cullom quadrangle1:62500
• 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Saunemin quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
• 1998 USGS Saunemin quadrangle1:24000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Saunemin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423169. 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.