What drives Mount Pulaski Township’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mount Pulaski Township is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its share of homes from before 1940 ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Mount Pulaski Township’s overall grade.
Few Illinois towns list much on the Register (a typical Illinois town has 0.5 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Mount Pulaski Township’s 15.4 sits above most of its state (86% of Illinois towns have fewer) while its 3 listings outnumber those of 65% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from A− to A+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±10.7 points). Two sources give 1836.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Mount Pulaski Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mount Pulaski Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Mount Pulaski is a city in Logan County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Mount Pulaski had a population of 1,537. It is the home of the Mount Pulaski Courthouse State Historic Site. The city is named in honor of Polish Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski. Mount Pulaski has one high school: Mount Pulaski High School, home of the Hilltoppers. The school colors are purple and gold. Mount Pulaski held the county seat of Logan County from 1848 to 1855.
Mount Pulaski Township was established in 1836. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,100 to 2,011 (-4%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
Mount Pulaski Township, 1836 to 1954
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
What they wrote about Mount Pulaski Township in 1886
Passages that mention Mount Pulaski Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Logan County, Illinois1886 · page 813Read the page →
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Parks, of Lincoln. Mr. Turley at an early day was a farmer in Mount Pulaski Township, and in 1836 interested himself, with Jabez Capps and Dr. Robinson, in laying out the town of Mount Pulaski. He was a busy, stirring man, doing all in his power to develop the town and advance its interests. He built the house at the northwest corner of the square, now the home of Mrs. Beam, and one of the oldest houses in Mount Pulaski, and lived here un¬ til his death, which occurred February 28, 1865. In early life he
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History of Logan County, Illinois, together with sketches of its cities, villages, and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent person, and biographies of representative citizens1886 · page 797Read the page →
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foundry, and later in Ridgley's bank as porter. At one time the brothers, George, John and Michael Mayer, each owned and ran a dray in Springfield. In 1846 John G. Mayer removed his family to a new farm in Mount Pulaski Township, where he lived until 1850. He then went inti) mercantile business with his brother, George Mayer, continuing with him until 1859, when on account of failing health, he withdrew from the business and returned to his farm, where he died April 1, 1866, after nine years of almost
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History of Logan County, Illinois1886 · page 797Read the page →
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foundry, and later in Ridgley’s bank as porter. At one time the brothers, George, John and Michael Mayer, each owned and ran a dray in Springfield. In 1846 John G. Mayer removed his family to a new farm in Mount Pulaski Township, where he lived until 1850. He then went into mercantile business with his brother, George Mayer, continuing with him until 1859, when on account of failiug health, he withdrew from the business and returned to his farm, where he died April 1, 1866, after nine years of almost
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mount Pulaski Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1954Mechanicsburg 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 Mount Pulaski Township.
On the National Register
3 historic places in Mount Pulaski Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
In 1836, according to Wikidata. Mount Pulaski Township’s post office opened in 1838, and the census of 1850 counted 360 people here.
How does Mount Pulaski Township rank for history?
Mount Pulaski Township is more historic than 94% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Mount Pulaski Township?
3 listings: 1 building, among them the Robert Buckles Barn (listed 1983, the first).
How old are the homes in Mount Pulaski Township?
48% of Mount Pulaski Township’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±10.7 points), against a typical 11% for an Illinois town; the median home was built in 1948.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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