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History · Berwick Township

Berwick Township’s post office opened in 1843, and 17% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1985 on.

1843first post office
0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Berwick Township began

When was Berwick Township founded?

1843

The Berwick Township post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1853.

2020 census: 291183 years
Founding year: the first Berwick Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1853.

What stands out about Berwick Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Berwick Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1843: 183 years of Berwick Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Berwick Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Timeline

Berwick Township, 1843 to 1985

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1843Post officeThe Berwick post office opens
  3. 1897Born hereCalvin B. Hoover is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1985On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Berwick Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Berwick Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Berwick is an unincorporated community in Warren County, Illinois, United States. Berwick houses a volunteer fire department, grain elevator, and Baptist Church. Berwick has a post office with ZIP code 61417. Berwick is 9.5 miles (15.3 km) southeast of Monmouth.

Its first post office opened in 1843. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 327 to 291 (-11%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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On the map

Berwick Township on the map, 1985 to 1998

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Berwick Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Berwick Township on the 1985 USGS mapBerwick Township on the 1998 USGS map1985Galesburg sheet · 1:100,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Berwick Township.

Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Berwick
Gone or out of use
Center SchoolschoolLincoln SchoolschoolMiller SchoolschoolPretty Prairie SchoolschoolValley Quarrymine
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Berwick Township
MeridiansPierce

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Indian Point TownshipIts storyBFloyd TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGreenbush TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRoseville TownshipIts storyB−

Questions about Berwick Township’s history

What year was Berwick Township founded?

The Berwick Township post office opened in 1843, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1853.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.