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History · Crouch Township

22% of Crouch Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1958 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Crouch Township’s past

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

Lost villages6 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Crouch Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Crouch Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

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

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

Saint Francis Xavier
1870–1876
Ellis Mound
1873–1908
Lower Hills
1875–1894
Piopolis
1877–1905
Garrison
1893–1936
Aden
1894–1930
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AdenGarrisonPiopolis
Gone or out of use
Garrison SchoolschoolLower Aden SchoolschoolLower Mill Post Officepost officeMaulding SchoolschoolMoulton Farms AirportairportRichardson Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Crouch Township
GarrisonRawls

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

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

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The story so far

Crouch Township, in brief

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

Crouch Township is one of twelve townships in Hamilton County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 386 and it contained 170 housing units.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 374 to 386 (+3%).

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

Timeline

Crouch Township, 1870 to 1958

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1870Post officeThe Saint Francis Xavier post office opens
  3. 1873Post officeThe Ellis Mound post office opens
  4. 1875Post officeThe Lower Hills post office opens
  5. 1876Post officeThe Saint Francis Xavier post office closes
  6. 1894Post officeThe Lower Hills post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1908Post officeThe Ellis Mound post office closes
  9. 1958On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Crouch Township on the map, 1958 to 1974

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

Crouch Township on the 1958 USGS mapCrouch Township on the 1962 USGS mapCrouch Township on the 1974 USGS map1958Belleville sheet · 1:250,000

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

People over time

Crouch Township, census by census

010020030040020002020Peak: 386

Between 374 and 386 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Crouch Township

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

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Jerry SloanAmerican basketball player and coach · b. 1942
William BorahAmerican politician · b. 1865
John Henry StelleAmerican politician · b. 1891
Henry C. WarmothAmerican politician · b. 1842
James R. CampbellAmerican politician 1853-1924 · b. 1853
Harold A. GarmanUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient · b. 1918
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Dahlgren TownshipIts storyC+South Crouch TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMill Shoals TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBig Mound TownshipIts storyC+Orel TownshipIts storyC−Beaver Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBarnhill 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.