Brown County, Illinois, United States

Details for Brown County

Name

Brown County

Place Type

County

Located in

Illinois, United States

County Seat

Mount Sterling (Mount Sterling Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		39.9667151		39° 58' 00.2" N
Longitude		-90.7334624		90° 44' 00.5" W

Population

5,836

Elevation

211 m

Surrounding Counties

Schuyler NE
Cass E
Morgan SE
Scott SE
Pike S
Adams W

USGS GNIS FeatureID

424206

Histopolis Place ID

979095639

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Brown County

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

Brown County, Illinois Genealogical Records Information [My Illinois Genealogy]
This page is for the general information on Brown County, Illinois. Which includes Brown County, Illinois County Records, Brown County, Illinois History, Brown County, Illinois Facts, Brown County, Illinois Genealogical Addresses & websites relate...
http://www.myillinoisgenealogy.com/il-county-brown.html (19 Aug 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Brown 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/BR.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Brown County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=5946&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (14 Jan 2008)

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Brown County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Brown County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Brown/ (3 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=694 (11 Sep 2009)

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

Brown County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Brown 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=5946 (11 Nov 2008)

The USGenWeb Illinois Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/brown/brncem.htm (21 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Brown County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Brown County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Brown/cem/ (28 Aug 2009)

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Surveys in Brown County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 11 Townships

The Fourth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Brown County. You can navigate to any of the 11 survey townships that overlap Brown County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Brown County

9 Townships

Buckhorn	Cooperstown	Elkhorn	Lee
Missouri	Mount Sterling	Pea Ridge	Ripley
Versailles

Cities of Brown County

1 City, 3 Villages, 14 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Benville	Buckhorn	Cooperstown	Damon
Fargo	Gilbirds	Hersman	Jaques
La Grange	Milton (historical u.p.)	Morrelville	Mount Sterling (city)
Ripley (village)	Scotts Mill	Siloam	Timewell (village)
Versailles (village)	White Oak Springs (historical u.p.)

Cemeteries of Brown County

77 Cemeteries, 3 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Arnold	Ausmus	Beans	Becam
Bell	Benville	Bixler	Bowman
Buckhorn	Butler	Casteen	Clark
Cleaves	Cooperstown	Cross Roads	Dawson
De Witt	Dearborn	DeHart	Dobey
Elias Clark	Fargo	Gilbirds	Glasgow Farm
Greenwell	Gristy	Hall	Hambaugh
Harbour	Hebron	Hersman	Howe
Huffman	Hulett	Icabod Perry	Keifer
Kinman Burial Ground	Kinney	Knight	Lavina Henry
Law	Lee	Linn	Linn-Walker Graves
Logan Creek	Logsdon Number 1	Logsdon Number 2	Marden
Martin	Means	Miller Land	Morrelville
Mounds	Mount Sterling Catholic	Mount Sterling City	Mount Zion
Mt. Sterling Catholic (*)	Mt. Sterling City (*)	Mt. Zion (*)	Newenham
Orton	Perry	Putnam	Reeves
Reynolds	Rigg	Ripley Township	Robison
Root	Rusk	South Side	Stoner
Suratt Burial Ground	Tebo Burial Ground	Tucker	Vandeventer
West Side	Wilson	Woods	Zion Lutheran

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