Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1955 on and old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Greene Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Greene Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Greene Township is located in Woodford County, Illinois at T27N, R1E. As of the 2010 census, its population was 483 and it contained 164 housing units.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 483 in 2010, 474 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Greene Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
land belonging to the company, the Illinois Central Railroad, therefore, being the proprietor of the village. As before intimated, the first building in the town, aside from those belonging to the company, was the store building brought from Greene Township by William Grosley, but the first one actually erected here was put up by F. I. Barnard, in the Fall of 18.54, and completed during the next Summer.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
As soon as the first survey had been made, improvements began to spring up at once. Indeed, before the town was platted, Jan. 2, 1873, 0. A. Cavan moved a house from Greene Township into the limits — the same now serving as dining room for his hotel. The first dwelling built in the village after it was laid out was put up by F. D. Learned, and completed March 3, 1873. In
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greene Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greene Township.
Nobody well known was born in Greene Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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, the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
