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History · Fountain Bluff Township

Fountain Bluff Township’s post office opened in 1868

Most of Fountain Bluff Township was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1965. Below: maps from 1990 on and the census since 2000.

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How Fountain Bluff Township began

When was Fountain Bluff Township founded?

1868

The Fountain Bluff Township post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Fountain Bluff (1868), Neunert (1892) and Raddle (1903), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 276 in 20002020 census: 204158 years
Founding year: the first Fountain Bluff Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Fountain Bluff 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 Fountain Bluff Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Fountain Bluff Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Fountain Bluff Township’s collection

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

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Places that used to be

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

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

Fountain Bluff
1868–1908
Neunert
1892–1907
Raddle
1903–1936
Jacob
1904–today
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
JacobNeunertRaddle
Gone or out of use
Big Lake SchoolschoolHalein SchoolschoolSchool Number 122schoolSwamp Hollow Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Fountain Bluff Township
Christ Lutheran

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

The story so far

Fountain Bluff Township, in brief

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

Fountain Bluff Township is one of sixteen townships in Jackson County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 204 and it contained 94 housing units. It includes Fountain Bluff, a range of hills.

Its first post office opened in 1868. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 208 in 2010, 204 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Fountain Bluff Township, 1868 to 1990

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1868Post officeThe Fountain Bluff post office opens
  3. 1892Post officeThe Neunert post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1903Post officeThe Raddle post office opens
  6. 1907Post officeThe Neunert post office closes
  7. 1908Post officeThe Fountain Bluff post office closes
  8. 1936Post officeThe Raddle post office closes
  9. 1990On 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

Fountain Bluff Township on the map in 1990

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fountain Bluff Township.

Fountain Bluff Township on the 1990 USGS map1990Altenburg 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 Fountain Bluff Township.

People over time

Fountain Bluff Township, census by census

010020030020002020Peak: 276

Between 204 and 276 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Fountain Bluff Township

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

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John A. LoganAmerican soldier and politician · b. 1826
Mike BostAmerican politician · b. 1960
Don OhlAmerican basketball player · b. 1936
Bucky BockhornAmerican basketball player · b. 1933
Chris JansonAmerican singer-songwriter · b. 1986
Kent E. KellerAmerican politician · b. 1867
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Degognia TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSand Ridge TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKinkaid TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrand Tower Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGorhamIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Fountain Bluff Township’s history

What year was Fountain Bluff Township founded?

The Fountain Bluff Township post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 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.