Loading map...

2015 Map of Bushnell West

Name: 2015 Topographic Map of Bushnell West
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2015
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2015

About this map

Bushnell serves as the primary urban center in this West-Central Illinois landscape, showing a dense residential grid intersected by numerous named streets like W Hess St and W Twyman St. The surrounding terrain is defined by a dendritic drainage network, with the E Fork La Moine River and its various tributaries, including Farmers Fork and Short Fork, cutting through the agricultural sections. Smaller settlements such as Scottsburg and Walnut Grove provide evidence of more dispersed rural communities.

Genealogists and local historians can find several established burial grounds across the township, including Solon-Robinson Cem, Hageman Cem, and Pearce Cem. The map also captures the intersection of traditional land use and modern infrastructure, from the rural airstrip at Runyan Aviation to the southern edge of the survey near Bardolph. The persistent township-and-range road system creates a predictable geometry across the McDonough County prairie, occasionally interrupted by the winding paths of Drowning Fork and Kepple Cr.