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History · Hunt City Township

17% of Hunt City Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1940 on.

0on the National Register
17%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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What stands out about Hunt City 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 Hunt City Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Hunt City Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of Hunt City Township’s homes were built before 1960.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Hunt City Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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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.

Hunts City
1874–1895
Hunt
1895–1953
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BrookvilleHunt City
Gone or out of use
Brockville SchoolschoolByrd SchoolschoolCompromise SchoolschoolFairview SchoolschoolLittle Range SchoolschoolWhitaker Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Hunt City Township
BaileyBrockvilleMattesonMoundWeaver

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

The story so far

Hunt City Township, in brief

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

Hunt City is an unincorporated community in Hunt City Township, Jasper County, Illinois, United States.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 282 to 248 (-12%).

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

Timeline

Hunt City Township, 1874 to 1953

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874Post officeThe Hunts City post office opens
  3. 1895Post officeThe Hunts City post office closes
  4. 1895Post officeThe Hunt post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1909Born hereBurl Ives is born here
  7. 1940On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 1953Post officeThe Hunt post office closes
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

Hunt City Township on the map, 1940 to 1998

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

Hunt City Township on the 1940 USGS mapHunt City Township on the 1985 USGS mapHunt City Township on the 1998 USGS map1940Greenup 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 Hunt City Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Willow Hill TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrandville TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCrooked Creek TownshipIts 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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.