Cass County High Point Trip Report

"Kuhlmann Hill"

Author: John Mitchler

Overlooking the mighty Sanagmon River near its mouth along the Illinois River in west-central IL, this cohp is a gentle rise up on a bluff and is cropland. Dick Ellsworth's report took me right to it. In answer to his question, the Hill Road is Khulmann. To Dick's report I might add that in Beardstown (a tavern- loaded river town), take 6th Street off US67 near the bridge, then go 1.6 miles through town to the cemetery which Dick uses as the start of his mileages. I also noticed that where Kuhlmann Hill Road leaves Chandlerville Road and ascends the bluff, there are excellent exposures of loess, a wind-blown glacial material deposited 17,000 years ago. It is soft but competent.