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History · Clarksburg Township

Clarksburg Township’s post office opened in 1898, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Clarksburg Schoolhouse. Below: maps from 1986 on.

1898first post office
1on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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How Clarksburg Township began

When was Clarksburg Township founded?

1898

The Clarksburg Township post office opened in 1898, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Holland (1861) and Clarksburg (1898), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 385128 years
Founding year: the first Clarksburg Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Clarksburg 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 Clarksburg Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Clarksburg Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Clarksburg Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Clarksburg Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

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

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

Holland
1861–1922
Clarksburg
1898–1931
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Clarksburg
Gone or out of use
Grove SchoolschoolHolland SchoolschoolRockford ChurchchurchSylvan SchoolschoolUnion ChurchchurchZion Churchchurch
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Clarksburg Township
GraybillHoweMount HermonMount ZionRockfordUnionWatton

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

The story so far

Clarksburg Township, in brief

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

Clarksburg is an unincorporated community in Clarksburg Township, Shelby County, Illinois, United States. Clarksburg is located on County Route 7, 5.9 miles (9.5 km) south-southeast of Shelbyville.

Its first post office opened in 1898. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 401 to 385 (-4%).

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

Timeline

Clarksburg Township, 1861 to 1986

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1861Post officeThe Holland post office opens
  3. 1898Post officeThe Clarksburg post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1922Post officeThe Holland post office closes
  6. 1931Post officeThe Clarksburg post office closes
  7. 1986On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Clarksburg Township on the map in 1986

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Clarksburg Township.

Clarksburg Township on the 1986 USGS map1986Effingham 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 Clarksburg Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Clarksburg Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2001
Clarksburg Schoolhouse
Clarksburg Schoolhouse
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Two Room School1
Clarksburg SchoolhouseTwo Room School

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Clarksburg Township

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

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Fred K. HufferAmerican composer and conductor · b. 1879
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Joe AdamsAmerican baseball player · b. 1877
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Shelbyville Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townHolland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLakewood TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPrairie TownshipIts storyB

Questions about Clarksburg Township’s history

What year was Clarksburg Township founded?

The Clarksburg Township post office opened in 1898, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Clarksburg Township?

One place: the Clarksburg Schoolhouse (listed 2001).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.