1971 Map of Stillman Valley

About this map

Stillman Valley sits at the junction of two major rail lines, the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific and the Chicago and North Western, which dictated the early layout of this Ogle County landscape. The settlement is positioned south of the confluence where Kishwaukee Creek meets the Rock River, a region defined by agricultural drainage and undulating terrain. Evidence of the local extraction economy is visible through numerous Gravel Pits and Quarries scattered near the village and southward toward the rise of Big Mound.