Adams County, Illinois, United States

Details for Adams County

Name

Adams County

Place Type

County

Located in

Illinois, United States

County Seat

Quincy (Quincy Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		39.9667135		39° 58' 00.2" N
Longitude		-91.1834747		91° 11' 00.5" W

Population

66,090

Elevation

226 m

Surrounding Counties

Hancock N
Schuyler NE
Brown E
Pike SE
Ralls (Missouri) SW
Marion (Missouri) SW
Lewis (Missouri) W
Clark (Missouri) NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

424202

Histopolis Place ID

539297978

Updated Jan 1

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Genealogy Resources for Adams County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Cemeteries in or near Adams County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=5845&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (14 Jan 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Adams County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Adams County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Adams/cem/ (19 Aug 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Adams County, Ill. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/AD.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Adams County, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_County,_Illinois (16 Jul 2010)

Adams County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Adams County, Illinois IL, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5845 (11 Nov 2008)

The USGenWeb Illinois Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/adams/adamscem.html (7 Dec 2009)

Adams County, Illinois Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Adams County, Illinois
http://www.interment.net/us/il/adams.htm (16 May 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Adams County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Adams County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Adams/ (12 Feb 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=690 (5 Sep 2009)

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Surveys in Adams County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 30 Townships

The Fourth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Adams County. You can navigate to any of the 30 survey townships that overlap Adams County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Adams County

23 Townships

Beverly	Burton	Camp Point	Clayton
Columbus	Concord	Ellington	Fall Creek
Gilmer	Honey Creek	Houston	Keene
Liberty	Lima	McKee	Melrose
Mendon	Northeast	Payson	Quincy
Richfield	Riverside	Ursa

Cities of Adams County

1 City, 13 Villages, 44 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Adams	Beverly	Blacks	Bloomfield
Burton	Calftown (historical u.p.)	Camp Point (village)	Chatton
Cherry Lane Estates	Cheshire Hills	Chestline	Clayton (village)
Coatsburg (village)	Columbus (village)	Country Meadows	Ewbanks
Fall Creek	Fowler	Glendale	Golden (village)
Grandview Acres	Hickory Grove	Hillside Manor	Holiday Hills
Kellerville	Kingston	La Prairie (village)	Liberty (village)
Lima (village)	Lincoln Hills	Loraine (village)	Marblehead
Marcelline	Meadowbrook	Melrose	Mendon (village)
Meyer	Mill Creek (historical u.p.)	Millville (historical u.p.)	North Quincy
Northbrook	Northridge	Palm Garden Mobile Home Park	Paloma
Payson (village)	Plainville (village)	Quincy (city)	Richfield
Rock Creek	Sheridan Estates	South Crest	South Park Terrace
Southern View	Spring Valley	Sunnybrook Meadows	Ursa (village)
Woodlawn Court	Woodville

Cemeteries of Adams County

133 Cemeteries, 12 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Amen	Baker Family	Beverly Old	Bluff Hall
Booth	Broady Family	Burden	Burton
Byler	Calvary	Cate Family	Cate-Manard (*)
Clark (*)	Clark Family	Coats	Columbus
Concord	Craigtown	Curless	Denson
Drescher Family	Dunkard	Dunn	Durbin
Earel	Ebenezer	Ehe	Ellington Church
Elmwood Family	Evangelical Lutheran	Evergreen (Camp Point, Camp Point Township)	Evergreen (Gilmer Township)
Fairview	Fall Creek Chapel	Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens	Franklin
Franks	Gallimore	Goertz	Gooding
Graceland	Grady	Gray Mound	Greenmount
Grubb Family	Harwood	Hebron	Higgins
Higley Family	Hufnagel	Hughes Family	Independence
Jefferson	Johnson	Karnes	Keith
Kemp	Kimmons	Kingston	Klarner
Laugh	Laughlin	Leenerts	Liberty Old
Lierly (Liberty Township)	Lierly (McKee Township)	Lima	Lock Family
Loraine New	Loraine Old	Lutheran Friedhof	Mayfield Family
Meints	Melrose Chapel	Memorial Gardens	Mixer Family
Mound Prairie	Mount Carmel	Mount Horeb	Mount Pleasant
Moyer	Mt. Carmel (*)	Mt. Horeb (*)	Mt. Pleasant (*)
Nation	New Providence	Newmaw Family	Newton
Nichols Family	Padgett	Paloma	Payson New
Payson Old	Pearce	Perrigo	Pleasant View (Clayton Township)
Pleasant View (Liberty Township)	Potter	Powell	Quincy Memorial Park
Quincy National †	Rice Family	Richland	Rubart
Saint Anthonys	Saint Boniface	Saint Brigids	Saint Joseph (Gilmer Township)
Saint Joseph (Mendon Township)	Saint Peters	Saint Peters Evangelical Lutheran	Sargent
Shiloh	South Side	Spring Valley	St. Anthonys (*)
St. Boniface (*)	St. Brigids (*)	St. Joseph (* Gilmer Township)	St. Joseph (* Mendon Township)
St. Peters (*)	St. Peters Evangelical Lutheran (*)	Stahl	Stevens
Steward	Stone Family	Sunset	Tandy
Thompson	Valley of Peace	Voorhees	Walker (Liberty Township)
Walker (Northeast Township)	Wallace (Camp Point Township)	Wallace (Concord Township)	Wesley Chapel
West Side	Whiaker	Wilkes	Williams Family
Wolf Ridge	Woodland	Woodville	York Neck
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