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History · Fox Township

23% of Fox Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1941 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Fox Township’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Fox Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Fox Township’s homes were built before 1956.
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The story so far

Fox Township, in brief

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

Fox Township is one of eleven townships in Jasper County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 442 and it contained 197 housing units.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 512 to 442 (-14%).

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

Timeline

Fox Township, 1878 to 1941

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1878Post officeThe Boos Station post office opens
  3. 1878Post officeThe West Liberty post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1905Post officeThe Boos Station post office closes
  6. 1941On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Fox Township on the map, 1941 to 1985

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

Fox Township on the 1941 USGS mapFox Township on the 1985 USGS map1941Newton 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 Fox Township.

People over time

Fox Township, census by census

010020030040050060020002020Peak: 540

Between 442 and 540 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Boos Station, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Boos Station
1878–1905
West Liberty
1878–today
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BoosWest Liberty
Gone or out of use
Dallmier SchoolschoolGreenwood SchoolschoolMaple Grove SchoolschoolOchs SchoolschoolRichards Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Fox Township
Bethel

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Ste. Marie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWade Township1 historic placeBPreston TownshipIts storyCSmallwood TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWillow Hill TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWest LibertyIts 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.