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Ford County, Illinois, United States

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Details for Ford County

NameFord County
Place TypeCounty
Located in
Illinois, United States
County SeatPaxton (Patton Township)
Coordinates
Latitude 40.5833679 40° 35' 00.1" N
Longitude -88.2506051 88° 15' 02.2" W
Population14,275
Elevation237 m
Surrounding CountiesKankakee NE
Iroquois NE
Vermilion SE
Champaign S
McLean W
Livingston NW
USGS GNIS FeatureID424228
Histopolis Place ID411906674
Updated Apr 15, 2011
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Genealogy Resources for Ford County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.
The USGenWeb Illinois Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ford/cemetery.html (21 Sep 2009)

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

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

Cemeteries in or near Ford County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=6144&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (18 Jan 2008)

Ford County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Ford 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=6144 (12 Nov 2008)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=716 (12 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Ford County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Ford County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Ford/cem/ (29 Aug 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Ford 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/FO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Ford County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Ford County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Ford/ (6 Mar 2010)
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Surveys in Ford County

2 Surveys, 6 Ranges, 19 Townships

The Second Principal Meridian and Third Principal Meridian surveys govern land descriptions in all or part of Ford County. You can navigate to any of the 19 survey townships that overlap Ford County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Ford County

12 Townships
BrentonButtonDixDrummer
LymanMonaPattonPeach Orchard
PellaRogersSullivantWall

Cities of Ford County

2 Cities, 7 Villages, 8 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)
Cabery (village)ClarenceDerbyElliott (village)
GarberGibson (city)GuthrieHarpster
Kempton (village)Melvin (village)Paxton (city)Perdueville
Piper City (village)ProctorRoberts (village)Sibley (village)
Stelle

Cemeteries of Ford County

19 Cemeteries, 3 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)
BlackfordBrewtonDrummer TownshipFarmersville
GlenHallMeharryMelvin
Mona TownshipMount HopeMount OlivetMt. Hope (*)
Mt. Olivet (*)OregonPells ParkPleasant Grove
PontoppidanProspectSaint JosephSt. Joseph (*)
Ten Mile GroveTrickle Grove

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