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Sugar Grove, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Woodstock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62681. The Survey maps it on the Rushville South quadrangle. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Sugar Grove within Schuyler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Grove: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
General Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Blend Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Donaldson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Old John Smith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sugar Grove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Schuyler County

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
Rushville6.3 miles15
Pleasant View7.6 miles16
Scotts Mill8.0 miles14
Frederick8.1 miles16
Erwin10.1 miles14
Hale Ridge (historical)11.1 miles14
Browning12.6 miles15
Ray13.2 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 Sugar GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7634817The 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 1720736. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.