Macon County, Illinois, United States

Details for Macon County

Name

Macon County

Place Type

County

Located in

Illinois, United States

County Seat

Decatur (Decatur Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		39.8667036		39° 52' 00.1" N
Longitude		-88.9667457		88° 58' 00.3" W

Population

117,206

Elevation

201 m

Surrounding Counties

De Witt N
Piatt NE
Moultrie SE
Shelby S
Christian SW
Sangamon W
Logan NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

424256

Histopolis Place ID

262561796

Updated Dec 9, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Macon 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=747 (6 Sep 2009)

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

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=55 (10 Mar 2011)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Macon County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Macon County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Macon/ (22 Dec 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Macon County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Macon County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Macon/cem/ (21 Aug 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Macon 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/MC.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Macon County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Macon 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=6377 (12 Nov 2008)

The USGenWeb Illinois Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/macon/maconcem.html (8 Dec 2009)

Macon County, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_County,_Illinois (20 Jul 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Macon County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=6377&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (22 Jan 2008)

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Surveys in Macon County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 21 Townships

The Third Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Macon County. You can navigate to any of the 21 survey townships that overlap Macon County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Macon County

17 Townships

Austin	Blue Mound	Decatur	Friends Creek
Harristown	Hickory Point	Illini	Long Creek
Maroa	Milam	Mount Zion	Niantic
Oakley	Pleasant View	South Macon	South Wheatland
Whitmore

Cities of Macon County

3 Cities, 9 Villages, 21 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Argenta (village)	Bearsdale	Blackland	Blue Mound (village)
Boody	Bulldog Crossing	Casner	Chapin
Decatur (city)	Elwin	Emery	Faries Park (historical u.p.)
Forsyth (village)	Harristown (village)	Heman	Hervey City
Larkdale	Long Creek (village)	Longview Place	Macon (city)
Maroa (city)	Mount Zion (village)	Newburg	Niantic (village)
Oakley	Oreana (village)	Prairie Hall	Sangamon
Turpin	Walker	Warrensburg (village)	Wyckles
Wyckles Corners

Cemeteries of Macon County

45 Cemeteries, 4 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Bethel	Boiling Springs	Brown	Calvary
Chandler	Cross	Crum	Emery
Fairlawn †	Florey	Friends Creek	Garver
Graceland †	Greenwood †	Hall	Harristown
Hudelson	Illini	Long	Long Grove
Long Point †	Macon	Macon County Memorial Park	Maroa
Mount Gilead	Mount Zion	Mount Zion Presbyterian	Mt. Gilead (*)
Mt. Zion (*)	Mt. Zion Presbyterian (*)	Muirheid †	North Fork
Peck	Pleasant View	Point Pleasant	Pope
Ridge	Ritchie	Saint Johns Lutheran	Salem
Sharon	Spangler	St. Johns Lutheran (*)	Union
Upper Ridge	Walnut Grove	Wheeler	Whitley †
Zion

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