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Watkins, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Santa Anna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61842. The Survey maps it on the Farmer City North quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level.

Watkins within De Witt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

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
Farmer City3.2 miles14
Parnell4.6 miles14
Fullerton6.0 miles14
Solomon8.0 miles13
De Witt9.0 miles13
Weldon11.6 miles14
Birkbeck12.4 miles13
Lane14.4 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q7974683The 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 423292. 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.