Huffmanville, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hunter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61944. The Survey maps it on the Saint Bernice quadrangle.

Huffmanville within Edgar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1947 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Saint Bernice quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Saint Bernice quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Hunter township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Edgar County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County--its Cities, Towns, &c. : Directory of Its Tax-payers; War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map of Edgar County; History of Illinois, Illustrated; History of the Northwest, Illustrated; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c., &c. Illustrated, published 1879 - Hunter Township

Biographical Sketches

Levi Boyer, a farmer, and has always been a faithful and hard worker, the result of which is a good property. They came to Illinois, locating where they now reside in *1864; they have raised a family of seven - Eliza J. (now Mrs. A. Hendricks), Da¬ vid J. (deceased ; was killed in the army, at the battle of Atlanta), Emma (deceased), Charity (now Mrs.

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In the county-history sources

14,401 words on this township

The History of Edgar County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County--its Cities, Towns, &c. : Directory of Its Tax-payers; War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map of Edgar County; History of Illinois, Illustrated; History of the Northwest, Illustrated; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c., &c. Illustrated, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Hunter Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Baldwdnsville, at a later period, we believe, absorbed Cambridge. A post office and store was once kept here, by a man named Baldwin, and went by the name of Baldwinsville Post Office. But it has long passed away, and the site of the place is now a cultivated farm. Huffmanville was called after David Huffman, on whose land it is located, and who kept a store and a post office there since the discontinuing of that at Baldwinsville. The post office has been discontinued at this point, but the store is still in operation and carried on by Thomas McFall. J. DawTson now keeps a small store in the township, and also has a post office, which is called Dawson Post Office. The place consists only of a store, post office and a blacksmith-shop.

Passage source: The History of Edgar County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County--its Cities, Towns, &c. : Directory of Its Tax-payers; War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map of Edgar County; History of Illinois, Illustrated; History of the Northwest, Illustrated; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c., &c. Illustrated, published 1879.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Hunter Township.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Huffmanville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Edgar County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clays Prairie	2.8 miles	17
Kentucky	4.7 miles	18
Vermilion	4.8 miles	18
Logan	6.7 miles	17
Kidley	6.8 miles	17
West Sandford	7.1 miles	18
Paris	7.8 miles	15
Harris	8.1 miles	16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122593624

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1808108. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.