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Montgomery County, Illinois

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38newspaper titles

0digitized titles

13historic places

1800earliest paper

1821formed

28,288pop. 2020

93cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 38 newspaper titles published in Montgomery County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1800. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 13 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Litchfield, Hillsboro, Virden.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Montgomery

Library of Congress

38 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
Hillsboro Blade	Hillsboro	1800–1999
The Hillsboro Journal	Hillsboro	1800–2004
The Litchfield Daily News	Litchfield	1800–1913
The Litchfield Journal	Litchfield	1857–1899
Hillsboro Democrat	Hillsboro	1860–1874
Litchfield Union Monitor	Litchfield	1860–1879
The Illinois Free Press	Hillsboro, Litchfield	1860–1999
The Litchfield News	Litchfield	1865–1999
Hillsboro News Letter	Hillsboro	1870–1879
The Hillsboro Journal	Hillsboro	1870–1879
The Litchfield Monitor	Litchfield	1870–1999
Daily Democrat	Hillsboro	1871–1899
The Irving Gazette	Irving	1872–1999
The Anti-Monopolist	Hillsboro	1874–1999
Free Press	Nokomis	1877–1880
The Hillsboro Journal	Hillsboro	1877–1899
Litchfield Advocate	Litchfield	1880–1889
Litchfield Weekly Advocate	Litchfield	1880–1889
The Free Press-Gazette	Nokomis	1880–1918
The Litchfield Advocate	Litchfield	1880–1999
The Herald	Litchfield	1888–1999
The Evening Monitor	Litchfield	1892–1895
The Litchfield Monitor	Litchfield	1895–1999
Litchfield Daily Union	Litchfield	1900–?
The Litchfield Daily Herald	Litchfield	1900–1913
Litchfield News-Herald	Litchfield	1913–?
The Free Press-Progress	Nokomis	1918–?
The Farmersville Herald	Farmersville	1943–1950
The Farmersville Herald & Post	Farmersville	1950–1999
The Farmersville Press	Farmersville	1964–1976
The Hillsboro and Montgomery County News	Hillsboro	1965–1983
The Enterprise	Litchfield	1976–1977
The Journal-News	Hillsboro	2004–?
The Journal-News	Hillsboro	2004–?
Deutsch-Amerikaner	Nokomis	?–
Litchfield Herald	Litchfield	?–
The Daily Herald	Litchfield	?–
The Irving Times	Irving	?–

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.

18001856191319692026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

13 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Ariston Cafe	Litchfield	Building	2006
Belvidere Cafe, Motel and Gas Station	Litchfield	Building	2007
Blackman, George, House	Hillsboro	Building	1986
Brown Shoe Company Factory	Litchfield	Building	2006
Freeman-Brewer-Sawyer House	Hillsboro	Building	1992
Grubbs, Samuel Moody, House	Litchfield	Building	1990
Hayward-Hill House	Hillsboro	Building	1980
Litchfield Elks Lodge No. 654	Litchfield	Building	1995
Litchfield Public Library	Litchfield	Building	1999
Manske-Niemann Farm	Litchfield	District	2003
Montgomery County Courthouse	Hillsboro	Building	1994
Route 66, Litchfield to Mount Olive	Litchfield	Structure	2001
Thomas, Lewis H., House	Virden	Building	1983

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Montgomery was formed in 1821 (1821-02-12) from Bond, Madison.

MONTGOMERY created from BOND and MADISON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Montgomery County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,953	4,490	13,979	28,078	30,836	41,403	34,499	32,460	31,244	31,686	30,652	28,288

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

93 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 93 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Abner Casey Cemetery	39.16104	-89.27094
Allen Cemetery	None	None
Allen Cemetery	None	None
Armentrout Cemetery	39.22309	-89.33536
Asbury Cemetery	39.30117	-89.56599
Austin Cemetery	None	None
Aydelot Cemetery	None	None
Bald Knob Cemetery	None	None
Blooming Grove Cemetery	39.20224	-89.52172
Bluff Cemetery	39.16549	-89.49549
Bost Hill Cemetery	39.14538	-89.33344
Briggs Cemetery	None	None
Brown Cemetery	39.10034	-89.36797
Calvary Catholic Cemetery	None	None
Calvary Cemetery	39.2981	-89.2711
Calvary Cemetery	None	None
Calvary Cemetery	None	None
Cass Cemetery	39.27337	-89.56842
Cedar Ridge Cemetery	None	None
Cherry Grove Cemetery	None	None
Clear Springs Cemetery	39.11198	-89.53842
County Farm Cemetery	39.12138	-89.46973
Crabtree Cemetery	39.1545	-89.64397
Crawford Cemetery	39.27761	-89.63258
Cress Cemetery	39.08861	-89.34907
Cress Hill Cemetery	39.17014	-89.51051
Donaldson Cemetery	None	None
Donnellson Cemetery	39.04325	-89.48858
Edgewood Cemetery	39.17873	-89.62234
Edwards Chapel Cemetery	39.06837	-89.49063
Elm Lawn Memorial Park	39.18281	-89.6328
Elmwood Cemetery	39.17604	-89.63354
Flowers Cemetery	None	None
Glendale Cemetery	39.10448	-89.27739
Gooseneck Cemetery	39.2343	-89.32703
Gray Cemetery	None	None
Green Hill Cemetery	39.04059	-89.28785
Griswold Cemetery	39.06243	-89.67627
Hampton Mount Cemetery	None	None
Hart Cemetery	39.12365	-89.61627
Harvel Cemetery	None	None
Holy Cross Cemetery	39.17726	-89.63092
Hopewell Cemetery	39.1877	-89.41741
Hornestead Cemetery	None	None
King Cemetery	39.21675	-89.42928
Kirkland Cemetery	39.02226	-89.59175
Lemon Mound Cemetery	None	None
Macoupin Creek Cemetery	39.42815	-89.68081
Mansfield Cemetery	39.09943	-89.49849
Martin Cemetery	None	None
Martin Cemetery	None	None
Max Damery Cemetery	None	None
McCord Cemetery	39.18925	-89.44505
McDavid Point Cemetery	39.10011	-89.41484
Montgomery Cemetery	39.23419	-89.4818
Mount Moriah Cemetery	None	None
Nichols Cemetery	None	None
Oak Grove Cemetery	39.15587	-89.50285
Oak Grove Cemetery	39.27505	-89.28857
Old Providence Cemetery	None	None
Old Saint Mary's Cemetery	None	None
Protestant Cemetery	None	None
Providence Cemetery	39.36432	-89.69827
Rankin Presbyterian Cemetery	39.03476	-89.55841
Raymond City Cemetery	39.32031	-89.58085
Renshaw Cemetery	39.04701	-89.26552
Roberts Cemetery	39.2531	-89.60092
Rountree Cemetery	None	None
Rovey Cemetery	39.44291	-89.66876
Saint Agnes Cemetery	39.15474	-89.50169
Saint Johns Cemetery	39.26073	-89.42816
Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery	39.09542	-89.67545
Saint Mary's Cemetery	None	None
Saint Raymond Cemetery	39.2992	-89.56679
Saribner Cemetery	None	None
Shiloh Cemetery	39.07235	-89.35936
Spencer Jones Cemetery	None	None
Street Cemetery	None	None
Street Cemetery	None	None
Tennessee Cemetery	39.24335	-89.14249

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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