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History · Kelly Township

14% of Kelly Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1982 on.

0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Kelly 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 Kelly Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Kelly Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kelly Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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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.

Tylerville
1841–1850
Utah
1850–1906
18401930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Shanghai CityUtah
Gone or out of use
Forest Flower SchoolschoolRepublican SchoolschoolScience Hall SchoolschoolStarr SchoolschoolTylerville SchoolschoolUnion SchoolschoolUtah Post Officepost office
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Kelly Township
HopeMilesPotterTerpening

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

The story so far

Kelly Township, in brief

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

Kelly Township is in Warren County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 346 and it contained 159 housing units. A small portion of the village of Alexis is in this township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 346 to 380 (+10%).

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

Timeline

Kelly Township, 1841 to 1982

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1841Post officeThe Tylerville post office opens
  3. 1850Post officeThe Tylerville post office closes
  4. 1850Post officeThe Utah post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1906Post officeThe Utah post office closes
  7. 1982On 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

Kelly Township on the map in 1982

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Kelly Township.

Kelly Township on the 1982 USGS map1982North Henderson 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 Kelly Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Kelly Township

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

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Carl SandburgAmerican writer and editor · b. 1878
Justin HartleyAmerican actor · b. 1977
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.American engineer · b. 1859
Todd HamiltonProfessional golfer · b. 1965
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Hugh GillinAmerican actor · b. 1925
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Karl SwansonMajor League Baseball second baseman · b. 1900
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Henderson TownshipIts storyB+North Henderson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSpring Grove Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townColdbrook TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRio 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 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.