Research Guides: Cache River, Illinois: Watershed Science and Policy: Maps

Maps about the Cache River, IL Region

Flood Maps for Alexander County by Federal Emergency Management Administration
May view online for free. Most of the files are very large.
Flood Maps for Union County by Federal Emergency Management Administration
May view online for free. Most of the files are very large.
Heron Pond and Wildcat Bluff Nature Preserve, Johnson County, Illinois.
Call Number: Map Library Vertical File, 4th Floor (Ask for Assistance) Call Number: MROu G4102.H457 1
Physical Description: 1 map : photocopy ; on sheet 28 x 22 cm. Scale [ca. 1:18,125].
Cache River State Natural Area by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Call Number: G4102.C22E63 2007 .I422x (Map Library, 4th Floor)
Includes location map, illustrations, and text. 2007.
Cache River Watershed Discovery Maps by Illinois Floodmaps.org
Publication Date: 2015

Natural Resource Conservation Service: Illinois (USDA). Natural Resource Survey of the Cypress Illinois Quadrangle.
From the NRCS Illinois site: "The Natural Resources Survey of the Cypress, Illinois, Quadrangle provides a partial inventory of the soil, water, plant, and human resources for a small part of the Cache River Watershed. This resource-rich area located in the southern tip of Illinois served as the project area to test the concept of building a natural resources Geographic Information System (GIS)." The 11 x 17 version is also available.

National Wetlands Data by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Resource and Mapping Support
Contains the Wetlands Mapper and a program to view wetlands using Google Earth.

Searching for Maps in I-Share

Maps in Morris Library

Morris Library owns over 250,000 maps. Most of them are available through a card catalog in Geospatial Resources on the 4th floor. Some of them can be searched online through I-Share.

Finding Maps through I-Share

The best way to find maps using I-Share is to go directly to the Advanced Search. From the Library’s main page, http://www.lib.siu.edu/, click on “Books and More”, and then click on “Advanced I-Share Search.”

Enter your search words into the boxes at the top. You can limit your search in a variety of ways – Publication date, Language, etc. Under “Format”, select “Map.” Scroll to the bottom of the screen. In the drop-down menu that says “All I-Share Libraries”, select “SIUC Only.” Click on Find.

On the right side of the Results screen, there is a list of ways to further “Narrow Your Search.” Scroll down to “Genre.” In the picture below are some examples of the types of map limits that are available:

Select the item that you are interested in and bring the call number with you to the Map Library. One of our staff will help you locate the map and possibly find similar items that will help you.