BlockWoosung, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Woosung Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61091. The Survey maps it on the Polo quadrangle. It stands 827 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1930 USGS Woodsung quadrangle1:48000
- 1946 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Polo quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Dixon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
504 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Album of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Woosung Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Until the completion of the railroad through the township its broad prairies were left untouched by the hand of man, but few acres being taken up. In 1855 Captains Roundy, Brimblecom and Anderson, retired sea captains, came out and purchased 2,480 acres of land, employing men to break, fence and cultivate the land. They also laid out a village on a portion of their purchase, which they named Woosung, after a city of that name in China, each of the three men having been engaged in trade with that country.
Passage source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, published 1886.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Woosung: 13 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixon Quarry & Cement Plant | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Brimblecom Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dixon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Law Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Nelson Quarry - Portable Unit #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Palmyra Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woosung in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woosung | - | A tree was reported down on a house and propane tank south of Polo near US Rt 52 and Sterling Rd. Wind speed was estimated using radar. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woosung | - | Trees were blown down including one on a house in the Castellan Subdivision. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Woosung | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Woosung | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Corners | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Polo | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Buffalo Grove | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Grand Detour | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Stratford | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Lost Nation | 9.2 miles | 12 | |
| Eagle Point | 9.8 miles | 11 | |
| Haldane | 11.1 miles | 14 |
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 Woosung | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3476752 | The 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 421502. 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.