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History · Brouilletts Creek Township

Half of Brouilletts Creek Township’s homes were built after 1982

Most of Brouilletts Creek Township was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: maps from 1965 on and the census since 1930.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Brouilletts Creek 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 Brouilletts Creek Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Brouilletts Creek Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Old burying grounds12 cemeteries and burying grounds inside Brouilletts Creek Township.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brouilletts Creek Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Logan
1851–1906
Allen
1854–1855
Strattin
1865–1868
Kidley
1883–1906
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
KidleyLogan
Gone or out of use
Excelsior SchoolschoolJones SchoolschoolKidley SchoolschoolLegg SchoolschoolLogan SchoolschoolMount Carmel SchoolschoolSugar Grove SchoolschoolWatertown Schoolschool
12cemeteries and burying grounds inside Brouilletts Creek Township
AdamsAllenCameronHousetonIgoLittlefieldMccauleyMount CarmelNewcombNewtonOld ScottSugar Grove

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

The story so far

Brouilletts Creek Township, in brief

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

Brouilletts Creek Township is one of fifteen townships in Edgar County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 191 and it contained 95 housing units.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 235 to 191 (-19%).

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

Timeline

Brouilletts Creek Township, 1851 to 1965

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1851Post officeThe Logan post office opens
  3. 1854Post officeThe Allen post office opens
  4. 1855Post officeThe Allen post office closes
  5. 1865Post officeThe Strattin post office opens
  6. 1868Post officeThe Strattin post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1906Post officeThe Logan post office closes
  9. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

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On the map

Brouilletts Creek Township on the map, 1965 to 1986

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

Brouilletts Creek Township on the 1965 USGS mapBrouilletts Creek Township on the 1986 USGS map1965Scottland sheet · 1:24,000

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

People over time

Brouilletts Creek Township, census by census

020040060080019401960198020002020Peak: 728

Between 191 and 728 people in every census since 1930.

10 censuses, 1930–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Hunter TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPrairie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townEdgar Township1 historic placenot 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.