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History · Camargo

15% of Camargo’s homes were built before 1940

Below: old-book passages.

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The story so far

Camargo, in brief

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Camargo is a village in Douglas County, Illinois, United States. The population was 452 at the 2020 census. Camargo is at the intersection of Illinois Route 130 and U.S. Route 36. Camargo is the oldest township in Douglas County.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 445 in 2010, 452 in 2020.

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

From the old history books

What they wrote about Camargo in 1876

Passages that mention Camargo, cut from the printed page as they were published.

Is a proposed road, and was instituted by Tuscola people, materially aided by influential parties in Douglas and Vermillion counties. It runs in a northeast direction from Tuscola, leaving Douglas county in the northeast part of Camargo Township, thence through parts of Champaign and Vermillion cou…
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Is a proposed road, and was instituted by Tuscola people, materially aided by influential parties in Douglas and Vermillion counties. It runs in a northeast direction from Tuscola, leaving Douglas county in the northeast part of Camargo Township, thence through parts of Champaign and Vermillion counties to the ancient town of Dallas, and to Danville.

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

By decade

Camargo, decade by decade

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Camargo Illinois Water Tower2007Camargo Illinois Water TowerCamargo Illinois Post Office2007Camargo Illinois Post OfficeCamargo Illinois Fire Station2007Camargo Illinois Fire Station
Famous people

Famous people close to Camargo

Nobody well known was born in Camargo itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Brian CardinalAmerican basketball player · b. 1977
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Gertrude SawyerAmerican architect · b. 1895
T. Gilbert PearsonConservationist · b. 1873
Fred Ernst BusbeyPolitician and United States Army soldier · b. 1895
Helen BertramAmerican musical theatre actress · b. 1865
Fred WakefieldAmerican football player · b. 1978

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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 Wikimedia Commons (3), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.