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Woodford County, Illinois

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26newspaper titles
0digitized titles
7historic places
1800earliest paper
1841formed
38,467pop. 2020
68cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 26 newspaper titles published in Woodford 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 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Metamora, El Paso, Eureka.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Woodford

Library of Congress
26 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
Benson Weekly NewsBenson1800–1999
El Paso Conference Daily JournalEl Paso1800–1999
The Benson JournalBenson1800–1999
The El Paso JournalEl Paso1800–?
The Eureka JournalEureka1800–1999
Metamora SentinelMetamora1855–?
El Paso Weekly JournalEl Paso1865–1899
The El Paso JournalEl Paso1880–1890
El Paso Daily JournalEl Paso1881–1999
The Daily BladeMinonk1888–1888
The Metamora HeraldMetamora1889–1970
El Paso Daily JournalEl Paso1890–1894
The El Paso Daily JournalEl Paso1891–1891
The Daily El Paso JournalEl Paso1892–1899
The Daily El Paso JournalEl Paso1895–1896
El Paso Daily JournalEl Paso1897–1897
The El Paso JournalEl Paso1898–1900
The Daily JournalEl Paso1901–1902
Daily Fair JournalEl Paso1903–1999
The AdvertiserEl Paso1940–1956
The Advertiser-AdvanceEl Paso1956–1983
The HeraldMetamora1970–?
The El Paso RecordEl Paso1979–1991
The El Paso JournalEl Paso1991–1997
Metamora HeraldMetamora2017–?
The Eureka Democrat-JournalEureka?–

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

5 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
El Paso Public LibraryEl PasoBuilding1994
Eureka College Administration and ChapelEurekaBuilding1980
Eureka College Campus Historic DistrictEurekaDistrict2010
Illinois Central Railroad and Toledo, Peoria, and Western Railroad Freight HouseEl PasoBuilding1994
Metamora CourthouseMetamoraBuilding1978
Schertz, Joseph, HouseMetamoraBuilding1995
Stevenson, Adlai E., I, HouseMetamoraBuilding1980

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Woodford was formed in 1841 (1841-02-27) from McLEAN, Tazewell.

WOODFORD created from McLEAN and TAZEWELL.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Woodford County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

39k22k4,4151850188019201940196020002020
18501860188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,41513,28221,62021,82219,34019,12421,33524,57933,32035,46938,467

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

68 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 68 of 68 listed
NameLatLon
Allison Cemetery40.66242-89.26662
Apostolic Christian Cemetery40.77961-89.24063
Baker Cemetery40.72503-89.2673
Baughman Cemetery40.83924-88.98781
Bauman Cemetery40.88627-88.93155
Benson CemeteryNoneNone
Bigger CemeteryNoneNone
Black Partridge Cemetery40.83547-89.38518
Buckingham Cemetery40.90414-89.34613
Carlock Democrat Cemetery40.61868-89.13112
Carlock Oak Grove CemeteryNoneNone
Carroll Cemetery40.77283-89.11948
Centennial Chapel Cemetery40.6767-89.10397
Clayton Baptist Cemetery40.83801-89.08624
Clayton Township Cemetery40.85387-89.13116
Davison Cemetery40.91148-89.16723
Dells Apostolic Christian Cemetery40.63089-89.24183
East White Oak CemeteryNoneNone
Evergreen Cemetery40.74325-88.99758
Gabetown CemeteryNoneNone
Haedicke Cemetery40.75471-89.48575
Harper Cemetery40.76925-89.06127
Hawk Cemetery40.91018-89.20682
Hickory Point Cemetery40.77669-89.42258
Hollenback Cemetery40.9228-89.18225
Imhoff Cemetery40.87926-89.38449
Kappa Cemetery40.68038-89.00535
Lone Hill Cemetery40.87476-89.4337
Lourds CemeteryNoneNone
Low Point CemeteryNoneNone
Maurer Cemetery40.59687-89.18876
Mennonite Cemetery40.68591-89.19525
Minonk Township Cemetery40.91175-89.03024
Morsetown Cemetery40.82776-89.33725
Mount Vernon Cemetery40.90649-89.27463
Mount Zion Cemetery40.65246-89.32496
Mount Zion Cemetery40.74545-89.30491
Oak Grove Cemetery40.61583-89.12915
Oakwood Cemetery40.79715-89.38462
Olio Township Cemetery40.71133-89.27198
Olio Township Cemetery40.71133-89.27198
Panther CemeteryNoneNone
Panther Creek Church of the Brethren Cemetery40.79451-89.15941
Roanoke Cemetery40.80051-89.19113
Roanoke Mennonite Cemetery40.76856-89.23405
Saint Elizabeth Catholic Cemetery40.91967-89.3082
Saint Johns Cemetery40.8462-89.11891
Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery40.92057-89.29584
Saint Josephs CemeteryNoneNone
Saint Mary's Catholic CemeteryNoneNone
Saint Mary's Cemetery40.79281-89.38008
Saint Marys Cemetery40.76083-89.02553
Saint Patrick Cemetery40.90154-89.02431
Saint Peter Lutheran Cemetery40.85022-89.16202
Saint Peters Cemetery40.79326-89.15873
Sand Ridge Cemetery40.76711-89.5228
Sand Ridge CemeteryNoneNone
Secor Cemetery40.73488-89.12521
Spring Bay Cemetery40.82415-89.51622
Stewart Harmony Cemetery40.82524-89.29365
Stumbaugh Cemetery40.62225-89.30337
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran CemeteryNoneNone
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery40.84624-89.16076
Washburn CemeteryNoneNone
Winkler Cemetery40.80622-89.46695
Wolf Creek CemeteryNoneNone
Woodford County Home Cemetery40.77714-89.33626
Woosley Cemetery40.73917-89.30058
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Bowling Green40.66309-89.17286
Farmsville40.62087-89.23981

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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