BlockPrairie Creek Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Logan County, Illinois, published 1886. 87 words, covering 1 settlement. 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
1 settlementWhat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harness | - | 1 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is not named in the chapter: it was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
87 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Logan County, Illinois, published 1886. 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.
Prairie Creek Township
The township to which this chapter is devoted occupies the northwest corner of Logan County and contains forty-two sections of land. It is bounded on the north by Tazewell County, on the east by Orvil Township, on the south by Sheridan Township and on the west by Mason County. It derives its name from Prairie Creek, which flows southwest through the middle of the township. The northwest corner is crossed by the Chicago & Alton Railroad, and the northeast corner by the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railroad.
Provenance
Text from History of Logan County, Illinois, published 1886, 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.