BlockPrairie Township
The complete chapter on this township from ILLINOIS HISTORICAL CRAWFORD COUNTY, published 1909. 125 words, covering 2 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annapolis | - | 12 | 1 | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 is named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
125 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from ILLINOIS HISTORICAL CRAWFORD COUNTY, published 1909. 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 Township
By act of the County Board of Supervisors of Crawford County, on June 19, 1903, a new town- Ship was created under the name of "Prairie Township," out of portions of Hutsonville and Licking Township, embracing a division from the western portion of the former and a division from the eastern portion of the latter, formal organization taking effect in July following. The new township embraces. an area of about 40 sections, of which 18 sections are in Town 8 North, Range 12 East; 3 sections in Town 7, Range 12; 15 sections and a fraction in Town 8, Range 13, and two full sections and a fraction in Town 7, Range 13. The villages of Annapolis and Raton are located within the new township.
Provenance
Text from ILLINOIS HISTORICAL CRAWFORD COUNTY, published 1909, 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.