Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Partridge Township was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Partridge Township’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Partridge Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Partridge Township is located in Woodford County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 593 and it contained 243 housing units.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 593 to 565 (-5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Passages that mention Partridge Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
m There are no villages in Partridge Township, nor has there ever been a regular post ofiice. Years ago, when the mail was carried on horseback from Lacon to Spring Bay, they had a kind of accommodation post office at Chauncey Baker's, where the mail for that neighborhood was left by the carrier, but, so far as we could learn, there was no authorized or commissioned Postmaster.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
There is some question as to when and where the first school house was erected. One story goes that the first in Partridge Township was built in 1845- 46, in the bottom, near where Johnson lived. Another, that it was built on Richland Creek, up near where Dan Sowards lived then. Which has the precedence we are unable to say.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Nobody well known was born in Partridge Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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 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.
