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Wabash County, Illinois

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2newspaper titles

0digitized titles

1historic places

1908earliest paper

1824formed

11,361pop. 2020

72cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 2 newspaper titles published in Wabash County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1908. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1994. Most listings are in or near Mt. Carmel.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Wabash

Library of Congress

2 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
Havill's Every Morning	Mount Carmel	1908–1999
Daily Republican-Register	Mount Carmel	1938–2015

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.

19001931196319942026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Beall-Orr House	Mt. Carmel	Building	1994

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Wabash was formed in 1824 (1824-12-27) from Edwards.

WABASH created from EDWARDS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,710	4,240	7,313	9,945	12,583	14,034	13,724	14,651	14,047	13,713	12,937	11,361

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
gero	Park unit	36.8 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

72 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 72 of 72 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adams Corner Cemetery	38.51067	-87.74238
Allendale Cemetery	38.5348	-87.70576
Antioch Church Cemetery	38.31787	-87.90989
Armstrong Cemetery	38.51615	-87.69224
Beauchamp and Harper Cemetery	38.44226	-87.77863
Becky Jordan Cemetery	None	None
Brewer Hill Cemetery	38.34754	-87.84614
Bump Cemetery	None	None
Carlyle Family	None	None
Centerville Cemetery	None	None
Chapman Cemetery	38.43651	-87.80387
Clark Cemetery	38.55481	-87.81513
Clark Cemetery	None	None
Coffee Cemetery	38.34795	-87.85865
Couch Cemetery	None	None
Cowling Farm Cemetery	None	None
Craig Farm Cemetery	38.55524	-87.77455
Cunningham Cemetery	38.54399	-87.89928
Deputy Family Cemetery	None	None
Fox Cemetery	None	None
Freeman Cemetery	None	None
Freiden Cemetery	38.34664	-87.94183
Friends Cemetery	None	None
Friendsville Cemetery	38.50404	-87.81809
Groff Family Cemetery	None	None
Hallock Cemetery	38.45271	-87.83809
Harper Cemetery	38.42773	-87.82937
Hazelton Cemetery	None	None
Higgins Cemetery	None	None
Higgins Cemetery	None	None
Highland Memorial Cemetery	38.42712	-87.77354
Jordan Cemetery	38.56123	-87.69519
Jordan Creek Cemetery	38.52882	-87.8815
Keens Cemetery	38.35222	-87.8719
Keepes Family Cemetery	None	None
Lancaster Cemetery	None	None
Le Gier - Lovellette Cemetery	38.34745	-87.83196
Lick Prairie Cemetery	38.48608	-87.91148
Liddle Cemetery	None	None
Lingenfelter Cemetery	38.42985	-87.78555
McClane Cemetery	38.41569	-87.95798
McCleary Bluff Cemetery	None	None
Nye Chapel Cemetery	38.48572	-87.85578
Old Bethel Cemetery	38.37921	-87.89753
Old Lancaster Cemetery	38.54757	-87.87202
Old Lancaster Cemetery	None	None
Osborn Cemetery	None	None
Painter Cemetery	None	None
Palmyra Cemetery	None	None
Paul Cemetery	38.56373	-87.93269
Paul Cemetery	None	None
Potters Field Cemetery	38.44619	-87.77832
Ridge Cemetery	38.45694	-87.92802
Ridgely Cemetery	38.5527	-87.81009
Rigg Cemetery	None	None
Rose Hill Cemetery	38.4196	-87.75789
Saint Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery	38.33835	-87.94028
Saint Marys Cemetery	38.41931	-87.7767
Saint Sebastian Cemetery	38.4227	-87.89362
Sand Hill Cemetery	38.40501	-87.7703
Seibert Cemetery	None	None
Sialome Cemetery	None	None
Simonds Family Cemetery	None	None
Sloan Cemetery	None	None
Spidle Cemetery	38.51092	-87.73871
Stillwell Family Cemetery	38.50005	-87.74562
Tanquary Cemetery	38.40861	-87.90265
Wabash Presbyterian Church Cemetery	38.55486	-87.77557
Wheeler Cemetery	38.31974	-87.95216
White Family Cemetery	None	None
Williams Cemetery	None	None
Woods Cemetery	38.4787	-87.80232

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Logansburgh	38.33755	-87.89198
New Hope	38.4156	-87.95837
Pohaten	38.43727	-87.74697
Selma	38.42588	-87.74808

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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