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From: "MARY SORENSEN" <>
Subject: Re: [ILMARION] Census Lookup
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:08:19 -0400
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thanks for he info. m.e.
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From: "gengar" <>
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Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ILMARION] Census Lookup


> DeLorme's atlas and gazatteer of the state of Illinois shows that the city
> limits of Centralia are mostly in Marion Co, but they also spill over into
> Clinton and Washington Counties. The unincorporated parts of the city may
> spread even further.
>
> Walnut Hill is shown in this atlas as entirely in Marion Co., but again
> maybe there were some people who lived on some edge of Walnut Hill and
> whose nearest post office may have been in Jefferson Co.
>
> The counties lines of Washington, Clinton, Marion and Jefferson did not
> change after 1830 according to Thorndale and Dollarhide's book, "Map Guide
> to the U. S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920", if this book can be taken as
> accurate. (I hope it is because I rely on it a lot.)
>
> So maybe all of the conversation about where the city and county lines
were
> located have to do with whether a person lived in the unincorporated parts
> of cities/towns or perhaps the post office that served a particular area.
>
> Dot
>
>
>
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