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2018 Map of Raddle

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

USGS Topo · Published 2018

About this map

Shawnee National Forest covers much of this landscape in Jackson County, where the rugged topography of southern Illinois meets the bottomlands of the Mississippi River. The settlement of Raddle sits on the flat expanse near the river, while smaller communities like Jones Ridge, Glenn, and Crain are distributed along the base of the rising bluffs. Local genealogy is well-documented through a high density of family burial grounds, including the Wilson Cem, Jones Cem, and McBride Cem scattered across the hills.

Water plays a central role in the geography, from the established waters of Kinkaid Lake in the northeast to the low-lying Wilkinson Island within the Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge. The transition from upland ridges like Gum Ridge and Dry Hill to the intricate network of hollows—such as Matusky Hollow and Logan Hollow—illustrates the complex drainage systems that feed into Kinkaid Cr and Worthen Bayou.