BlockPlato Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908. 109 words, covering 11 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
11 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowes | 7 | 1 | 3 | - |
| Bowes Bend | 5 | - | 1 | - |
| Chippewa | 5 | - | 1 | - |
| Hidden Lakes | 4 | - | 1 | - |
| McQueen | - | - | 2 | - |
| North Plato | 6 | - | - | - |
| Plato Center | 6 | 9 | 1 | - |
| Plato Corners | 9 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Silent Meadow | 6 | - | 1 | - |
| Tamara Heights | 6 | - | - | - |
| Udina | - | - | 2 | - |
Settlements in this township
11 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 11 is named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
109 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Plato Township
Dr. Daniel Pingree came to Kane county, from New Hampshire, in 1838, and purchased a large claim in Plato township. He studied medicine and w-as graduated March 22, 1849, fi"om the Indiana Medical College at La Porte. Indiana. He practiced a number of years in California, but returned to Kane county in i860, and had an extended ride in the region around his home, for many years .... Dr. L. S. Tyler was, however, the first regular physician in Plato, having come to Udina early in 1836, from \"ermont. He came here because of finding no opening at Chicago, and was engaged in practice at Udina for eight years.
Provenance
Text from History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.