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Bybee,Illinois
Bybee is a former settlement in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. The settlement was about south-southwest of Fairview and west-northwest of Canton. The community was laid out by David Bybee on a narrow gauge railway: probably the Fulton County Narrow Gauge Railroad that operated from 1880 to the 1920s. That railway was converted into standard gauge c. 1910. In 1905, two trains per day passed through Bybee; by 1913, only one train a day. There was a school, store, and train stop on the narrow gauge rail. There is a small cemetery near where this community formerly existed. The track was removed from this area when the narrow gauge company discontinued service between Galesburg and Fairview. The name Bybee is in four nearby geographic features in the Geographic Names Information System: the settlement (422523), Elevation from the National Elevation Dataset. a station (1802152) to the east, and two entries (405312 and 1984238) that appear to be the same cemetery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Township, Fulton County, Illinois
Joshua Township is one of twenty-six townships in Fulton County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 510 and it contained 206 housing units. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 98.03%) is land and (or 1.97%) is water. Unincorporated towns * Fiatt (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) * Bybee * Sugarville Cemeteries The township contains these cemeteries: Bybee, Fiatt, Gardiner, Locust Lane and Moore. Major highways * Illinois Route 9 * Illinois Route 97 Demographics School districts * Canton Union School District 66 * Community Unit School District 3 Fulton City * Spoon River Valley Community Unit School District 4 Political districts * Illinois' 17th congressional district The 17th congressional district of Illinois is represented by Democrat Cheri Bustos. It includes most of the northwestern portion of the state, with most of its population living on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Town
Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * Ghost Town (1936 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser * Ghost Town (1956 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1956 film), an American Western film by Allen H. Miner * Ghost Town (1988 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1988 film), an American horror film by Richard McCarthy (as Richard Governor) * Ghost Town (2008 film), ''Ghost Town'' (2008 film), an American fantasy comedy film by David Koepp * ''Ghost Town'', a 2008 TV film featuring Billy Drago * ''Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns'', a 2005–2006 British paranormal reality television series * Ghost Town (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), "Ghost Town" (''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''), a 2009 TV episode Literature * Ghost Town (Lucky Luke), ''Ghost Town'' (''Lucky Luke'') or ''La Ville fantôme'', a 1965 ''Lucky Luke'' comic *''Ghost Town'', a Beacon Street Girls novel by Annie Bryant *''Ghost Town'', a 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulton County Narrow Gauge Railroad
Fulton may refer to: People * Robert Fulton (1765–1815), American engineer and inventor who developed the first commercially successful steam-powered ship * Fulton (surname) Given name * Fulton Allem (born 1957), South African golfer * Fulton Burley (1922–2007), Irish-Canadian performer * Fulton J. Redman (1885–1969), American politician and newspaper editor * Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979), Sainthood candidate and American Archbishop and media personality * Fulton Kuykendall (born 1953), American former footballer * Fulton Lewis Jr. (1903–1966), American radio broadcaster * Fulton MacGregor, 21st century Scottish politician * Fulton Mackay (1922–1987), Scottish comic actor and playwright * Fulton McGrath (1907–1958), American jazz pianist and songwriter * Fulton Oursler (1893–1952), American journalist and editor Places Canada * Fulton, Ontario, a community in West Lincoln, Ontario United States * Fulton, Alabama * Fulton, Arkansas * Fulton, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ghost Towns In Illinois
This is a list of ghost towns in the U.S. state of Illinois. List * Anderson, Macoupin County * Appleton * Barr, Macoupin County * Benjaminville * Bethel * Bourbonais * Brownsville * Brush Point * Bybee * Caledonia, Putnam County * Cardiff * Cayuga * Challacombe * Chamness * Civer * Clayville * Clifford Eight * Coltonville * Comer * Crawfordsville * Daggett * Dutton * Elm Point * Elton * Enos * Evans * Fillmore, Douglas County * Fremont * Green Rock * Greenridge, Macoupin County * Griffin * Griggsville Landing * Gurney * Hagaman * Half Day, Lake County * Halfway * Halfway (Little Juarez) * Henpeck, Kane County * Horace * Jugtown (now part of Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area) * Kumler * Ledford * Lemmon * Lexington, Edwards County * Little Rock, LaSalle County * Macoupin * McVey * Midway, Fulton County * Miles Station * Mills Prairie * Millsdale * Millville * Milton, Brown County * Morse * Ocoya * Old Evansville * Old Westvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banner Township, Fulton County, Illinois
Banner Township is one of twenty-six townships in Fulton County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 373 and it contained 177 housing units. The township was known as Utica Township, then Monterey Township, before becoming Banner Township. Geography According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 83.58%) is land and (or 16.42%) is water. Cities, towns, villages * Banner Unincorporated towns * Monterey (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) * Kings Hill (Settlement with school & burying ground) * Mills point * Copperas Creek landing * Commerce Was an early village on the mouth of the copperas creek where it empties into the Illinois River. Just like Mills Point it never materialized & ceased to exist. It was platted in 1843 by Lyman B. Suydam. Cemeteries The township contains these four cemeteries: Bybee, Kings Hill, Utica and Walnut. Major highways * US Route 24 * Illinois Route 9 Lakes * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Elevation Dataset
The National Elevation Dataset (NED) consists of high precision topography or ground surface elevation data (digital elevation model) for the United States. It was maintained by the USGS and all the data is in the public domain. Since the 3D Elevation Program came online, the NED was subsumedThe National Map elevation informati/ref> into The National Map as one of its layers of information. Sources The NED dataset is a compilation of data from a variety of existing high-precision datasets such as LiDAR data (see also National LIDAR Dataset - USA), contour maps, USGS DEM collection, SRTM and other sources which were reorganized and combined into a seamless dataset, designed to cover all the United States territory in its continuity. Formats Data is available in a few popular formats such as ESRI ArcGRID, GeoTIFF, BIL, GridFloat, and a few others. Precision Depending on area location, the datasets are provided with 1/9 (about 3 meters), 1/3 (about 10 m) and 1-arcsecond A m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories, Antarctica, and the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. It is a type of gazetteer. It was developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to promote the standardization of feature names. Data were collected in two phases. Although a third phase was considered, which would have handled name changes where local usages differed from maps, it was never begun. The database is part of a system that includes topographic map names and bibliographic references. The names of books and historic maps that confirm the feature or place name are cited. Variant names, alternatives to official federal names for a feature, are also recorded. Each feature receives a per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galesburg, Illinois
Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States. The city is northwest of Peoria. At the 2010 census, its population was 32,195. It is the county seat of Knox County and the principal city of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Knox and Warren counties. Galesburg is home to Knox College, a private four-year liberal arts college, and Carl Sandburg College, a two-year community college. A section of the city is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Galesburg Historic District. History Galesburg was founded by George Washington Gale, a Presbyterian minister from New York state who had formulated the concept of the manual labor college and first implemented it at the Oneida Institute near Utica, New York. In 1836 Gale publicized a subscription- and land purchase-based plan to found manual labor colleges in the Mississippi River valley. Land was purchased for this purpose in Knox County and in 1837 the first s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard Gauge
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in East Africa. It is the most widely used track gauge around the world, with approximately 55% of the lines in the world using it. All high-speed rail lines use standard gauge except those in Russia, Finland, and Uzbekistan. The distance between the inside edges of the rails is defined to be 1435 mm except in the United States and on some heritage British lines, where it is defined in U.S. customary/Imperial units as exactly "four feet eight and one half inches" which is equivalent to 1435.1mm. History As railways developed and expanded, one of the key issues was the track gauge (the distance, or width, between the inner sides of the rails) to be used. Different railways used different gauges, and where rails of different gauge met – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canton, Illinois
Canton is the largest city in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 14,704 at the 2010 census, down from 15,288 as of the 2000 census. The Canton Micropolitan Statistical Area covers all of Fulton County; it is in turn, part of the wider Peoria-Canton, IL Combined Statistical Area (CSA). Geography Canton is located in northeastern Fulton County at . Illinois Routes 9 and 78 pass through the downtown together. IL 9 leads east to Banner near the Illinois River and west to Bushnell, while IL 78 leads north to Farmington and south to Little America in the Illinois River valley. According to the 2010 census, Canton has a total area of , of which (or 97.98%) is land and (or 2.02%) is water. History Canton was founded in 1825 by settler Isaac Swan, who believed his new town and Canton, China, were antipodes. Tragically, founder Isaac Swan, his infant child, and three other people died in the devastating tornado of June 1835. "Isaac Swan and his chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narrow Gauge Railroads In The United States
Standard gauge was favored for railway construction in the United States, although a fairly large narrow-gauge system developed in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Utah. Isolated narrow-gauge lines were built in many areas to minimize construction costs for industrial transport or resort access, and some of these lines offered common carrier service. Outside Colorado, these isolated lines evolved into regional narrow-gauge systems in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, Hawaii, and Alaska. New England In New England, the first narrow-gauge common-carrier railroad was the Billerica and Bedford Railroad, which ran from North Billerica to Bedford, Massachusetts, Bedford in Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1877 to 1878. There were extensive gauge lines in the Maine forests early in the 20th century. In addition to hauling timber, agricultural products and slate, the Maine lines also offered passenger services. The Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad was a narrow-ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulton County, Illinois
Fulton County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 37,069. Its county seat is Lewistown, and the largest city is Canton. Fulton County comprises the Canton, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Peoria-Canton, IL Combined Statistical Area. History Fulton County was organized in 1823 from Pike County. It is named for Robert Fulton, developer of the first commercially successful steamboat. American poet and writer Edgar Lee Masters lived in Fulton County during the 1890s; he later became famous for the Spoon River Anthology, written in 1915. Fulton County was home to Camp Ellis during World War II. The county is known for the annual Spoon River Scenic Drive, which occurs the first 2 weekends in October. This has been a tradition since 1968 and attracts thousands of participants from all over the country. Fulton County is home to the Ogden-Fettie Site, a significant site for Havana Hopewell Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
