Tower Heights, 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.

• 1924 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1926 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Virden North quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Virden North quadrangle1:24000

History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1821116. 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.