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History · Wilberton Township

Wilberton Township’s post office opened in 1890, and 32% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Wilberton Township began

When was Wilberton Township founded?

1890

The Wilberton Township post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Saint Paul (1876), Wilberton (1890) and Augsburg (1898), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 522136 years
Founding year: the first Wilberton Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Wilberton 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 Wilberton Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Wilberton Township, and 3 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Wilberton Township’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

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

Saint Paul
1876–1906
Wilberton
1890–1892
Augsburg
1898–1904
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AugsburgSaint PaulWilberton
Gone or out of use
Brush College SchoolschoolBundy SchoolschoolCenter ChurchchurchSadler SchoolschoolWilberton SchoolschoolWillow Branch Schoolschool
7cemeteries and burying grounds inside Wilberton Township
CenterCheshierCrowderImmanuel LutheranRiedleSaint Paul LutheranWilberton

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

The story so far

Wilberton Township, in brief

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

Wilberton Township is one of twenty townships in Fayette County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 522 and it contained 184 housing units. Its name changed from Richland Township on September 24, 1860.

Its first post office opened in 1890. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 505 to 522 (+3%).

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

Timeline

Wilberton Township, 1876 to 1906

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1876Post officeThe Saint Paul post office opens
  3. 1890Post officeThe Wilberton post office opens
  4. 1892Post officeThe Wilberton post office closes
  5. 1898Post officeThe Augsburg post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1904Post officeThe Augsburg post office closes
  8. 1906Post officeThe Saint Paul post office closes
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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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Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Otego Township1 historic placeB+Lone Grove TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townKaskaskia TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFoster TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Wilberton Township’s history

What year was Wilberton Township founded?

The Wilberton Township post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 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.