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History · Malone Township

25% of Malone Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1942 on.

0on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Malone 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 Malone Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Malone Township’s homes were built before 1957.
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The story so far

Malone Township, in brief

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

Malone Township is located in Tazewell County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 220 and it contained 95 housing units. Malone Township formed from Delavan Township in November, 1854.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 220 in 2010, 216 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Malone Township, 1898 to 1942

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1898Post officeThe Winkel post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1931Post officeThe Winkel post office closes
  5. 1942On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

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On the map

Malone Township on the map, 1942 to 1980

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

Malone Township on the 1942 USGS mapMalone Township on the 1980 USGS map1942Delavan 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 Malone Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Malone Township

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

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Gordon BuehrigAmerican designer · b. 1904
Joe SullivanAmerican baseball player · b. 1910
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John A. HartsAmerican football coach · b. 1873
Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Winkel, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Winkel
Gone or out of use
Cleveland Grove SchoolschoolCloverleaf SchoolschoolMalone ChurchchurchMalone SchoolschoolSand Burr Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Malone Township
Bratt

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Manito TownshipIts storyCAllens Grove TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSand Prairie TownshipIts storyBDelavan Township3 historic placesA+Prairie 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 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.