Townships Macoupin County Illinois



Macoupin County IL Townships with Towns

The townships are located in the table below as they are in the county itself.
May be used like a layout sketch of townships in Macoupin County


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Use the list above to go right to the township. Or, use the table below to click on a town for information about a current or former town in a particular township and history of the town's area if it has been contributed.
If the town exists today and facilities are available, information can be found about the current facilities today such as the library, motel, etc.. The white pages from Yahoo Search Engine where you can type in a surname and get all the surnames listed in the local town directory.
On each township page, you might find one of your Macoupin County ancestors in a list of old family names and their nativity for each of the townships taken from the 1875 Atlas of Macoupin County, published by Warner and Beers. Some of the people were in "what is now Macoupin County" as early as 1816.

Townships and Towns Table

Histories, pioneer names, towns that were and are no more, contributions of articles and remembrances.
Can you add to our townships' histories or did your ancestor help settle an area in Macoupin?

Old Place Names - quoted from the book Illinois Place Names compiled by James Adams
Also check out the Macoupin Land and Maps page
and
Rural School Maps showing rural school locations included on 1915 to 1932 US Geological Surveys

Lodging and website links listed with some towns.

Parenthesis () around the name of the town in the table below means the town or post office is no longer there.
There may not even be a tree left to locate the town of yesteryear.
A Sketch showing Bordering Counties of Macoupin

Scottville Twp
T12N-R9W
Scottville

North Palmyra Twp
T12N-R8W
Modesto
Palmyra (Newburg) (Cummington)
(Eagle Point)
(Vancil's Point)

North Otter Twp
T12N-R7W
(Stirrup Grove,
Pleasant Grove,
Chapman's Point)
(Elm Grove)

Virden Twp
Virden
(Monroe)
--- T12N-R6W ---
Girard Twp
(Fulton)
Girard (Waytown)
(Otter Creek/Otterville)

Barr Twp
T11N-R9W
(Barr's Store)
Part of Hettick

South Palmyra Twp
T11N-R8W
Hettick
Part of Palmyra

South Otter Twp
T11N-R7W
(Buford) (Elroy)
(Hoover's Point)
(Standard)
(Greasey)
(Anderson)
Part of Nilwood

Nilwood Twp
T11N-R6W
(Greenridge)
(Grinnerville)
(Harris Point)
(McVey)
Nilwood
(Seymour Station)
Standard City
(Sulphur Springs)

Western Mound Twp
T10N-R9W
(Hagaman)
(Reader)

Bird Twp
T10N-R8W
(Comer)
(Delay)(Enos)

Carlinville Twp
T10N-R7W
Carlinville

Shaws Point Twp
T10N-R6W
Atwater
(Barnett)
(Schoper)
Womac
Part of Standard City

Chesterfield Twp
T9N-R9W
(Challacombe)
Chesterfield
Medora (Delaware)
(Rhoads Point) (Trumbull)
(Summerville)

Polk Twp
T9N-R8W
(Macoupin Station
(Macoupin)
(Holiday Mills)
Beaver Dam State Park
(Steubenville)
(North Bend)


Brushy Mound Twp
T9N-R7W
(following were settlements)
Spanish Needle Prairie
Weatherford's Prairie
Borough station
Brushy Mound Prairie

Honey Point Twp
T9N-R6W


Shipman Twp
T8N-R9W
Piasa (DePiasas)
Shipman
Part of Medora

Hilyard Twp
T8N-R8W
(Brooklyn)
(Centerville)
Plainview (Wagoner's Prairie)
(Plainview Station)
Royal Lakes

Gillespie Twp
T8N-R7W
Bayless
East Gillespie
Gillespie (Prairie Farm)
Mount Clare
Part of Dorchester

Cahokia Twp
T8N-R6W
Benld
(Clyde)(Hornsby)
(Hammers Point) (Mt Olive)
(Honey Point)
Henderson (Henderson
Crossroads)(Douglas)
Eagerville
Part of East Gillespie
Part of Gillespie

Brighton Twp
T7N-R9W
Brighton
(Miles) (Miles Station)
(Bristol)

Bunker Hill Twp
T7N-R8W
Bunker Hill (Wolf Ridge)
(Lincoln)
Woodburn
Millville

Dorchester Twp
T7N-R7W
Dorchester (Bayless)
(Baylestown) (Boylestown)
Wilsonville

Mount Olive Twp
Mount Olive (Honey Point)(Rising Sun)
(Niemann's Settlement)
(East Mount Olive)
(Drummond Station)
Sawyerville
White City
(Carlsburg)
(
Karnes)
--- T7N-R6W ---
Staunton Twp
Staunton
(Village of Staunton)
Frog Town (not really a town)




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