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2018 Map of Mount Sterling

Name: 2018 Topographic Map of Mount Sterling
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 2018
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

Mount Sterling serves as the focal point of this Illinois survey, showcasing the town's grid and the nearby Mount Sterling Municipal Airport. The landscape is defined by the deep dissection of drainage basins including Dry Fork and McKee Creek, which carve through the rural countryside. Small unincorporated settlements like Fargo and Buckhorn are visible, connected by an extensive network of secondary roads such as Co RD 1000 N.

For genealogists, the map is particularly dense with burial sites, including the Mount Sterling City Cem and many smaller family or community plots like Cleaves Cem, Butler Cem, and Linn Cem. The southern edge of the map follows the winding path of McKee Creek near Sarah Hollow, illustrating how the local terrain transitions from the high plateaus of the north to the more complex, stream-fed hollows and ridges of the south.