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Utah, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Kelly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61401. The Survey maps it on the Galesburg West quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Utah within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

1,680 words on this township

Portrait and Biographical Album of Warren County, Illinois : Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States ; Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement Up to the Present Time, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Kelly Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1839, the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized. They held their meetings for many years in private houses and in school buildings. In 187", a church building was erected at a cost of $2,500, at Utah, which was formerly called Tylerville. A church building was also erected at Ionia, which place is also known by the name of Shanghai. The societies have been served by many pastors, the last being Mr. Bolen.

Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Warren County, Illinois : Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States ; Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement Up to the Present Time, published 1886.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Kelly Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

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
Coldbrook3.0 miles18
Shanghai City4.6 miles9
Surrey5.1 miles18
Gerlaw6.0 miles18
Alexis6.5 miles10
Cameron6.8 miles18
Spring Grove (historical)7.6 miles11
Woodvale8.7 miles11

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 UtahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22059028The 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 423270. 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.