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History · Eppards Point Township

70% of Eppards Point Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Schultz, Raymond, Round Barn. Below: maps from 1935 on.

1on the National Register
70%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Eppards Point Township’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Eppards Point Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Eppards Point Township’s homes were built before 1938.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Eppards Point Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The story so far

Eppards Point Township, in brief

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

Eppards Point Township is located in Livingston County, Illinois. As of the 2020 census, its population was 366 and it contained 138 housing units.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 427 to 366 (-14%).

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

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.

Ocoya
1860–1922
McDowell
1872–1918
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
McDowellOcoya
Gone or out of use
Brick SchoolschoolCenter SchoolschoolDillon QuarrymineEast QuarrymineEppards Point ChurchchurchFairview SchoolschoolHolmes SchoolschoolLake Side SchoolschoolMcDowell QuarrymineOcoya SchoolschoolPick Landing StripairportReeds SchoolschoolSeeman AirportairportTurtle Creek Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Eppards Point Township
Calvary CatholicPayne

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

Timeline

Eppards Point Township, 1860 to 1935

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1860Post officeThe Ocoya post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe McDowell post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1918Post officeThe McDowell post office closes
  6. 1922Post officeThe Ocoya post office closes
  7. 1935On 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

Eppards Point Township on the map, 1935 to 1998

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

Eppards Point Township on the 1935 USGS mapEppards Point Township on the 1983 USGS mapEppards Point Township on the 1998 USGS map1935Pontiac 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 Eppards Point Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Eppards Point 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
1982
Schultz, Raymond, Round Barn
Schultz, Raymond, Round Barn
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Round Barn1
Schultz, Raymond, Round BarnRound Barn

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Avoca TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPontiac Township5 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townYates TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPike TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Eppards Point Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Eppards Point Township?

One place: the Schultz, Raymond, Round Barn (listed 1982).

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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.