Knox County, Illinois, United States

Details for Knox County

Name

Knox County

Place Type

County

Located in

Illinois, United States

County Seat

Galesburg (Galesburg City Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		40.9333712		40° 56' 00.1" N
Longitude		-90.2001221		90° 12' 00.4" W

Population

56,393

Elevation

192 m

Surrounding Counties

Henry N
Stark NE
Peoria SE
Fulton S
Warren W
Mercer NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

424249

Histopolis Place ID

581581262

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Knox County

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Knox County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Knox County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Knox/ (17 Apr 2010)

Knox County, Illinois County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Knox County, Illinois, IL - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=6318 (20 Aug 2009)

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

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

The USGenWeb Illinois Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/knox/knoxceme.htm (16 Jan 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Knox County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=6318&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (20 Jan 2008)

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

The Political Graveyard: Knox 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/KX.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=737 (5 Sep 2009)

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Surveys in Knox County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 24 Townships

The Fourth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Knox County. You can navigate to any of the 24 survey townships that overlap Knox County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Knox County

21 Townships

Cedar	Chestnut	Copley	Elba
Galesburg	Galesburg City	Haw Creek	Henderson
Indian Point	Knox	Lynn	Maquon
Ontario	Orange	Persifer	Rio
Salem	Sparta	Truro	Victoria
Walnut Grove

Cities of Knox County

4 Cities, 11 Villages, 22 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Abingdon (city)	Altona (village)	Appleton	Bridgeport (historical u.p.)
Burnside (historical u.p.)	Centerville	Dahinda	DeLong
Douglas	East Galesburg (village)	Elba Center	Eugene
Galesburg (city)	Gilson	Henderson (village)	Henderson Grove
Hermon	Knox	Knoxville (city)	London Mills (village)
Maquon (village)	Oak Run	Oneida (city)	Ontario
Rapatee	Rio (village)	Saint Augustine (village)	Saluda
Soperville	Trenton Corners	Truro	Uniontown
Victoria (village)	Walnut Grove (historical u.p.)	Wataga (village)	Williamsfield (village)
Yates City (village)

Cemeteries of Knox County

85 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Abingdon	Alm's House	Altona	Blakeslee
Boydston-Dawdy	Bradford	Brookside	Bruner
Brush Creek	Butterfield Family	Caldwell Family	Catterton
Center Prairie	Cherry Grove	Clark Chapel	Clay
Cook	Corbin	Deatherage	East Linwood
Elba	Elias Bragg	Etherly	Ferguson
Fink	Fraker	Fuller	Galesburg Research
Galva	Garret	Gilson	Gum
Harper	Harshbarger	Haynes	Henderson
Henderson Grove	Hermon Christian	Hermon Methodist	Hope
Housh	Hunt	Junk	Kightlinger
Knoxville	Larson	Lewis	Linwood
Maquon	Martin	Mather	McCallister
Memorial Park	Myers	Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens	Old Scotch
Oneida	Ontario	Ouderkirk	Parker
Pleasant Hill	Rice-Blue	Rio	Rio Baptist
Robbins	Russell	Saint Josephs	Saint Marys
Salem	Smith	Soperville	St. Josephs (*)
St. Marys (*)	Summitt-Douglas	Swedish	Thurman
Trenton	Union	Uniontown	Van Gilder
Victoria	Walnut Grove	Wataga	West Truro
Westfall	Williams Family	Yates City

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