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History · LeRoy Township

44% of LeRoy Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
44%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about LeRoy Township’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of LeRoy Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s LeRoy Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.Old housesHalf of LeRoy Township’s homes were built before 1945.
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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.

Parks Corners
1850–1881
Blaine
1881–1900
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Blaine
Gone or out of use
Beck SchoolschoolBurr Oak SchoolschoolCenter SchoolschoolDullam SchoolschoolHovey SchoolschoolMunch HeliportairportParks Corners Post Officepost officeStone Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside LeRoy Township
BlaineBurr OakDullamRound PrairieStone School

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

The story so far

LeRoy Township, in brief

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

LeRoy Township is one of nine townships in Boone County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 485 and it contained 201 housing units.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 485 in 2010, 485 in 2020.

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

Timeline

LeRoy Township, 1850 to 1900

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1850Post officeThe Parks Corners post office opens
  3. 1881Post officeThe Parks Corners post office closes
  4. 1881Post officeThe Blaine post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1900Post officeThe Blaine post office closes
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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Chemung TownshipIts storyBPoplar Grove TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townManchester TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBoone TownshipIts storyC+

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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 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.