Troy Crossing, 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.

• 1907 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1937 USGS Collinsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Collinsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1991 USGS Collinsville quadrangle1:24000

History of Madison County, Illinois ... With Biographical Sketches .., published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Troy Crossing: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Madison County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy Crossing in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Madison County

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 419899. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.