Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1917 on and the census since 1930.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Allen Cemetery · Baker Cemetery · Bartmess Cemetery · Bennett Cemetery · Dickinson Cemetery · Ferrell Cemetery · Ford Cemetery · Fuller Cemetery · Ganies Cemetery · Green Cemetery · Green Hill Cemetery · Hale Cemetery · Higgins Cemetery · Johnson Cemetery · Lackey Cemetery · Maddox Cemetery · Morea Cemetery · Norton Cemetery · Pleasant View Cemetery · Seaney Cemetery · Shaw Cemetery · Tobey Cemetery · Wesley Chapel Cemetery
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Montgomery Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Montgomery Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Montgomery Township is one of ten townships in Crawford County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 671 and it contained 289 housing units.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 672 in 2010, 671 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Montgomery Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Montgomery Township.
Between 671 and 1,461 people in every census since 1930.
10 censuses, 1930–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Montgomery Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Montgomery Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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.
