<i>DIAGRAM OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1839
notes: label: Description
content: This map, created under the auspices of the General Land Office, divided Illinois into square townships 6 miles on each side (though townships at the edges of the state tend to be smaller and irregular in shape). The scale is 18 miles to the inch. The identified towns include Alton, Chicago, Danville, Edwardsville, Galena, Kaskaskia, Palestine, Quincy, Shawneetown, and Springfield, as well as St. Louis in the Missouri Territory, and Vincennes in Indiana. The 3d Principal Meridian runs down the middle of the state. The 4th Principal Meridian lies about 66 miles to the west. The text at bottom left reads “Surveyor Generals Office / Saint Louis 1st October 1839” and “William Milburn /Surveyor General.”
label: Description
content: Ref: William Milburn, “Report,” in <i>Public Documents Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States</i> (Washington, D.C., 1841), vol. 3, pp. 57-109.
label: Description
content: C. Albert White, <i>A History of the Rectangular Land Survey System</i> (Washington, D.C., 1983).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
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content: Measuring & Mapping
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content: National Archives and Records Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317492
label: accession number
content: 230397
label: catalog number
content: 317492
objectType: label: Object Name
content: map
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 20 in; 60.96 cm x 50.8 cm