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1998 Map of Arcola

Name: 1998 Topographic Map of Arcola
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2002
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2002

About this map

Arcola serves as the central hub of this Central Illinois landscape, where the town's grid is bisected by a major north-south transit corridor. The map reveals a highly engineered agricultural and industrial environment, featuring the Cooks Mills Consolidated Oil Field and the extensive Arcola Drainage Ditch No 4, reflecting the region's reliance on both resource extraction and water management. Outside the main settlement, the smaller communities of Galton and Chesterville anchor the surrounding townships of Bourbon and Humboldt.

Genealogists will find a wealth of data in the numerous family-named and local burial sites, including Campbell (Bagdad) Cem near the Kaskaskia River and Gardner (Union Walker) Cem on the Douglas and Coles county line. The presence of a Microwave Tower and Compressor Station along the pipelines in Bourbon township highlights the infrastructure required to move energy through the prairie at the close of the twentieth century.