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History · Honey Point Township

Honey Point Township’s post office opened in 1833, and 35% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1974 on and the census since 2000.

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Quick answers

How Honey Point Township began

When was Honey Point Township founded?

1833

The Honey Point Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Honey Point (1833), Honey Point (1862) and Corn (1895), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 225 in 20002020 census: 227193 years
Founding year: the first Honey Point Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Honey Point 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 Honey Point Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Honey Point Township.Deep rootsA post office since 1833: 193 years of Honey Point Township.
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Start Honey Point Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Honey Point
1833–1855
Honey Point
1862–1865
Corn
1895–1897
18301930today
Gone or out of use
Brown SchoolschoolEnterprise SchoolschoolHickory Grove SchoolschoolHoney Point SchoolschoolNew Era SchoolschoolWest Point Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Honey Point Township
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Timeline

Honey Point Township, 1833 to 1974

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1833Post officeThe Honey Point post office opens
  3. 1855Post officeThe Honey Point post office closes
  4. 1862Post officeThe Honey Point post office opens
  5. 1865Post officeThe Honey Point post office closes
  6. 1895Post officeThe Corn post office opens
  7. 1897Post officeThe Corn post office closes
  8. 20th century
  9. 1974On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Honey Point Township, in brief

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

Honey Point Township (T9N R6W) is located in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 155 and it contained 87 housing units.

Its first post office opened in 1833. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 155 to 227 (+46%).

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

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

Honey Point Township on the map, 1974 to 1982

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

Honey Point Township on the 1974 USGS mapHoney Point Township on the 1982 USGS map1974Gillespie North 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 Honey Point Township.

People over time

Honey Point Township, census by census

010020020002020Peak: 227

Between 155 and 227 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Honey Point Township

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

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Howard KeelAmerican actor and singer · b. 1919
Harold OsbornAthletics competitor · b. 1899
Mary Hunter AustinMemoirist, novelist, poet, essayist, critic, pl… · b. 1868
Dana BoenteAmerican lawyer · b. 1954
FerrasAmerican musician · b. 1984
Mark JuergensmeyerAmerican historian · b. 1940
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Brushy Mound TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNorth Litchfield Township4 historic placesAShaws Point TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCahokia TownshipIts storyB

Questions about Honey Point Township’s history

What year was Honey Point Township founded?

The Honey Point Township post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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.