Lee County, Illinois, United States

Details for Lee County

Name

Lee County

Place Type

County

Located in

Illinois, United States

County Seat

Dixon (Dixon Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		41.7505882		41° 45' 02.1" N
Longitude		-89.2834282		89° 17' 00.3" W

Population

34,392

Elevation

242 m

Surrounding Counties

DeKalb NE
LaSalle SE
Bureau SW
Whiteside W
Carroll NW
Ogle N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

424253

Histopolis Place ID

263443534

Updated May 12, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Lee County

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=741 (5 Sep 2009)

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

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

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

Illinois Gravestone Photo Project - Cemetery Index [Illinois Gravestone Photos]
Research your Illinois ancestors and family history by searching our online database of Illinois gravestone photos. Locate Illinois gravestone images of your descendants and discover your Illinois roots.
http://illinoisgravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=52 (10 Mar 2011)

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

Cemeteries in or near Lee County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=6342&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (21 Jan 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Lee County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Lee County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Lee/ (19 Feb 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Lee 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/LE.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Lee County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Lee 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=6342 (12 Nov 2008)

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Surveys in Lee County

2 Surveys, 7 Ranges, 24 Townships

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

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Townships of Lee County

22 Townships

Alto	Amboy	Ashton	Bradford
Brooklyn	Dixon	East Grove	Franklin Grove
Hamilton	Harmon	Lee Center	Marion
May	Nachusa	Nelson	Palmyra
Reynolds	South Dixon	Sublette	Viola
Willow Creek	Wyoming

Cities of Lee County

2 Cities, 10 Villages, 23 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Amboy (city)	Ashton (village)	Binghampton	The Burg
Compton (village)	Dixon (city)	Eldena	Franklin Grove (village)
Harmon (village)	Henkel	Inlet	Kingdom
Lee (village)	Lee Center	Lincoln Heights	Maytown
Melugin Grove (historical u.p.)	Nachusa	Nelson (village)	Palmyra
Paw Paw (village)	Prairieville	Radley	Roxbury
Scarboro	Shaws	Shelburn (historical u.p.)	South Paw Paw
Steward (village)	Sublette (village)	Twelvemile Corner	Van Petten
Walton	West Brooklyn (village)	Woodland Shores

Cemeteries of Lee County

53 Cemeteries, 7 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Ashton	Baird-Pumphrey	Binghampton	Bradford
Brooklyn	Brooklyn Lutheran	Burket	Centenary
Chapel Hill	Cottage Hill	Dewolf	Dixon State School
Ellsworth	Emanuel	Emmert	Fisk
Franklin Grove	Gehant Farm	German	Girton
Harding	Holy Cross Catholic	Inlet	Mormon
Mount Union	Mt. Union (*)	Nelson	Norwegian Lutheran
Oakwood	Peterson	Pine Grove	Prairie Repose
Prairieville	Reynolds	Rock Ridge	Saint Marys
Saint Mary's (Brooklyn Township)	Saint Mary's (East Grove Township)	Saint Mary's (May Township)	Saint Patrick's (Amboy Township)
Saint Patrick's (May Township)	Sandy Hill	South Paw Paw	St. Marys (*)
St. Mary's (* Brooklyn Township)	St. Mary's (* East Grove Township)	St. Mary's (* May Township)	St. Patrick's (* Amboy Township)
St. Patrick's (* May Township)	Stevens	Steward	Sugar Grove
Temperance Hill	Theiss	Twin Grove	Union (Alto Township)
Union (Brooklyn Township)	Williams	Woodside	Wyoming

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