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History · Loudon Township

27% of Loudon Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1941 on and the census since 2000.

0on the National Register
27%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Loudon Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Loudon Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Loudon Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Victor
1832–1835
Over Cup
1838–1838
Louden City
1849–1895
Greenland
1861–1876
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GreenlandMagnolia CornerPost OakWrights Corner
Gone or out of use
Buzzard SchoolschoolCarter RefinerylocaleCarter RefinerylocaleDurbin SchoolschoolGrant SchoolschoolGreenland SchoolschoolHog Creek SchoolschoolHogge SchoolschoolLogue SchoolschoolLoudon Oil FieldoilfieldMiller SchoolschoolVictory Schoolschool
10cemeteries and burying grounds inside Loudon Township
Bob DoanBob DoanDialKaskaskiaMount MoriahPost OakRansomRhodes FamilyRogersSpring Hill

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

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story so far

Loudon Township, in brief

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

Loudon Township is one of twenty townships in Fayette County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 881 and it contained 394 housing units.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 954 to 881 (-8%).

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

Timeline

Loudon Township, 1832 to 1941

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1832Post officeThe Victor post office opens
  3. 1835Post officeThe Victor post office closes
  4. 1838Post officeThe Over Cup post office opens
  5. 1838Post officeThe Over Cup post office closes
  6. 1849Post officeThe Louden City post office opens
  7. 1895Post officeThe Louden City post office closes
  8. 20th century
  9. 1941On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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

Loudon Township on the map, 1941 to 1983

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

Loudon Township on the 1941 USGS mapLoudon Township on the 1983 USGS map1941St Elmo 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 Loudon Township.

People over time

Loudon Township, census by census

02004006008001,00020002020Peak: 954

Between 661 and 954 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Bowling Green TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCarson TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAvena TownshipIts storyB−Sefton TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDry Point Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMoccasin TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLiberty 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, 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.