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Bureau County, Illinois

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32newspaper titles
0digitized titles
19historic places
1845earliest paper
1837formed
33,244pop. 2020
104cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 32 newspaper titles published in Bureau County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1845. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 19 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Princeton, LaMoille, Tiskilwa.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Bureau

Library of Congress
32 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
Hennepin Herald, and Bureau County AdvertiserHennepin, Princeton1845–1849
The Bureau AdvocatePrinceton1848–1899
The Bureau AdvocatePrinceton1848–1899
The Bureau County DemocratPrinceton1856–1862
The Bureau County RepublicanPrinceton1858–?
The Bureau County PatriotPrinceton1862–1879
The Bureau County PatriotPrinceton1862–1879
Bureau County HeraldPrinceton1871–1876
Bureau County HeraldPrinceton1871–1876
Lamoille ChronicleLa Moille1871–1899
Bureau County TribunePrinceton1872–1999
Bureau County TribunePrinceton1872–1999
Bureau County NewsPrinceton1881–1999
Buda Plain DealerBuda1887–1951
Bureau County TimesSheffield1889–1999
The Lamoille GazetteLa Moille1889–1999
L'auroraSpring Valley, Paterson, Union City1899–1901
Bureau County DemocratSpring Valley1900–1999
The Ladd JournalLadd1900–1948
The De Pue LeaderDepue1916–1948
The Manlius NewsManlius1928–1999
The Daily News-TribuneLa Salle, Peru, Oglesby1947–1969
The Daily News-TribuneLa Salle, Peru, Oglesby1947–1969
Bureau Valley ChiefTiskilwa, Ohio1951–1953
Bureau Valley HeraldTiskilwa, Ohio1952–1952
Bureau County IndependentTiskilwa1953–1999
Bureau Valley ChiefPrinceton1953–1959
Bureau Valley ChiefTiskilwa1969–?
Midland GazetteSpring Valley1975–1982
Bureau County RepublicanPrinceton1989–1990
Bureau County RecordPrinceton?–
The Evening GazetteSpring Valley?–

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18401886193319792026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

13 of 19 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

19 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Allen SchoolLaMoilleBuilding1996
First Congregational Church of LaMoilleLaMoilleBuilding1996
First State Bank of ManliusManliusBuilding1975
Greenwood CottagePrincetonBuilding1983
Hampshire Colony Congregational ChurchPrincetonBuilding2018
Hennepin Canal Historic DistrictHennepinDistrict1978
Lone Tree SchoolTiskilwaBuilding2004
Lovejoy, Owen, Homestead NHLPrincetonBuilding1973
Oakland Cemetery Historic DistrictPrincetonDistrict2021
Old Danish ChurchSheffieldBuilding1973
Paddock, Colonel George H., HousePrincetonBuilding2021
Princeton Chapter HousePrincetonBuilding1980
Princeton North Main Street Historic DistrictPrincetonDistrict2018
Princeton South Main Street-Courthouse Square Historic DistrictPrincetonDistrict2018
Red Covered BridgePrincetonStructure1975
Skinner, Richard M., HousePrincetonBuilding1983
Stevens HouseTiskilwaBuilding1992
Village HallSheffieldBuilding2013
Wood-Tellkamp HouseLaMoilleBuilding1995

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bureau was formed in 1837 (1837-04-03) from Putnam.

BUREAU created from PUTNAM.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Bureau County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

44k24k3,0671840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
3,06726,42633,17241,11242,64837,60037,71137,59439,11435,50333,244

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

104 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 104 listed
NameLatLon
Albrecht CemeteryNoneNone
Aldrich Family Cemetery41.40559-89.58148
Anderson Family Cemetery41.50118-89.80176
Anderson Family CemeteryNoneNone
Arispie CemeteryNoneNone
Arlington Cemetery41.47392-89.24119
Arlington Lost Grove Cemetery41.47392-89.24119
Artestian Well Cemetery41.36781-89.31175
Bereans Cemetery41.40808-89.2623
Bowen Cemetery41.51915-89.65707
Boyds Grove Cemetery41.16281-89.58009
Buda CemeteryNoneNone
Bunker Hills Cemetery41.29025-89.68395
Bureau County Home Cemetery41.35059-89.53342
Calvary Catholic Cemetery41.46675-89.24786
Catholic Cemetery41.2916-89.58738
Chenoweth Family CemeteryNoneNone
Clarion CemeteryNoneNone
Clarion Lutheran Cemetery41.54226-89.21617
Corss Cemetery41.42009-89.55857
Cyrus Hills Cemetery41.5103-89.2748
De Pue Village Cemetery41.34059-89.31787
Dover Cemetery41.4328-89.39647
Elm Lawn Cemetery41.38001-89.47149
Erbes Cemetery41.58303-89.20823
Evangelical and Reformed Cemetery41.36418-89.29397
Fairfield Amish Mennonite Cemetery41.57645-89.78486
Fairfield Cemetery41.52995-89.74245
Fifield Cemetery41.33661-89.66501
Floral Hill Cemetery41.29256-89.78806
Follett Cemetery41.46537-89.69263
Forest CemeteryNoneNone
Forest Hill Cemetery41.36586-89.57509
German Evangelical Cemetery41.58468-89.21044
Gold Township Cemetery41.43513-89.78593
Greenfield Cemetery41.52864-89.27702
Greenwood Cemetery41.29902-89.36455
Hayes CemeteryNoneNone
Heatons Point Cemetery41.45087-89.50315
Hetzler Cemetery41.5536-89.24696
Hollowayville Cemetery41.36421-89.29365
Hopeland Cemetery41.3248-89.71837
Hunter Cemetery41.19586-89.51953
Jenkins-Green Cemetery (historical)41.33864-89.46064
Kennedy Family CemeteryNoneNone
LaMoille CemeteryNoneNone
Ladd Cemetery41.37934-89.20097
Leon CemeteryNoneNone
Limerick Cemetery41.48579-89.46606
Lithuanian Cemetery41.33892-89.18953
Lone Tree Cemetery41.18441-89.48196
Malden Cemetery41.42753-89.3748
Manlius Cemetery41.45165-89.66963
Mason Cemetery41.45005-89.45519
Miller Cemetery41.33115-89.22259
Miller CemeteryNoneNone
Milo Cemetery41.19308-89.58286
Mineral Cemetery41.34982-89.80502
Miners Memorial Cemetery41.42314-89.21824
Mount Bloom Cemetery41.2942-89.52314
Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery41.33142-89.18455
Mount Pleasant Cemetery41.23632-89.70238
Neponset Cemetery41.2928-89.81764
New Bedford Chapel Cemetery41.4969-89.70883
Newell CemeteryNoneNone
North Prairie Cemetery41.52493-89.39228
Oak Hill Cemetery41.28614-89.5887
Oakland Cemetery41.36515-89.48276
Ohio Cemetery41.55586-89.45925
Old Swedish CemeteryNoneNone
Pioneer Cemetery41.43308-89.39401
Prairie Repose Cemetery41.42992-89.40392
Princeton CemeteryNoneNone
Red Oak Cemetery41.57174-89.53677
Roggy Cemetery41.47409-89.56804
Saint Annes Cemetery41.33655-89.19722
Saint George Syrian Cemetery41.33142-89.22342
Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery41.36781-89.31203
Saint Josephs Cemetery41.32698-89.17942
Saint Margarets CemeteryNoneNone
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Bourbonais41.34365-89.63538

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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