LaPlace, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Cerro Gordo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61936. The Survey maps it on the La Place quadrangle. 239 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

LaPlace within Piatt County

Population over time

2 figures

LaPlace fell from 259 to 239 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	259
2020	239	-20 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1955 USGS Bement quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS La Place quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1999 USGS La Place quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

8,856 words on this township

Past and Present of Piatt County, Illinois : Together with Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Influential Citizens, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Cerro Gordo Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors held September 10, 1902, on motion of William L. Plunt, of Sangamon township, it was decided to submit to the voters at the next general election, a proposition to issue the bonds of the county to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, to erect a court house to cost not more than seventyfive thousand dollars, and to repair the jail at a cost not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars.

Passage source: Past and Present of Piatt County, Illinois : Together with Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Influential Citizens, published 1903.

The county court room extends across the south end of this floor. In the southeast corner is the office of the county judge. Just north of him is the state's attorney's office, and north of that the office and vault of the circuit clerk.

Passage source: Past and Present of Piatt County, Illinois : Together with Biographical Sketches of Many Prominent and Influential Citizens, published 1903.

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 Cerro Gordo Township.

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
Lintner	2.6 miles	11
Burrowsville	4.5 miles	11
Cerro Gordo	6.3 miles	11
Hammond	6.7 miles	12
Milmine	8.2 miles	11
Voorhies	8.6 miles	12
Bodmann	9.3 miles	12
Pierson	10.0 miles	12

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.

Wikipedia article on LaPlace	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5961848	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 411659. 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.