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History · Blue Mound Township

39% of Blue Mound Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1954 on and the census since 1880.

0on the National Register
39%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Blue Mound Township’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Blue Mound Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Blue Mound Township’s homes were built before 1961.
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The story so far

Blue Mound Township, in brief

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

Blue Mound is a village in Macon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,133 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Decatur, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 890 to 822 (-8%).

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

Timeline

Blue Mound Township, 1855 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1855Post officeThe Musquito Creek post office opens
  3. 1856Post officeThe Musquito Creek post office closes
  4. 1870Post officeThe Boody post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Blue Mound Township on the map, 1954 to 1982

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

Blue Mound Township on the 1954 USGS mapBlue Mound Township on the 1982 USGS map1954Niantic sheet · 1:62,500

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

People over time

Blue Mound Township, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,40018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,338

Between 532 and 1,338 people in every census since 1880.

15 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Blue Mound Township’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Musquito Creek, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Musquito Creek
1855–1856
Boody
1870–today
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BlacklandBoody
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Blue Mound Township
BrownHallHudelsonMuirheidPopeZion

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.

Harristown TownshipIts storyCPleasant View TownshipIts storyBSouth Wheatland Township1 historic placeB−Mosquito TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.