Shelby County, Illinois, United States

Details for Shelby County

Name

Shelby County

Place Type

County

Located in

Illinois, United States

County Seat

Shelbyville (Shelbyville Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		39.4000395		39° 24' 00.1" N
Longitude		-88.7834017		88° 47' 00.2" W

Population

22,261

Elevation

184 m

Surrounding Counties

Moultrie NE
Coles E
Cumberland E
Effingham SE
Fayette SW
Montgomery W
Christian W
Macon N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1785051

Histopolis Place ID

445986672

Updated May 12, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Shelby County

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

Cemeteries in or near Shelby County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=6671&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (24 Jan 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Shelby County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Shelby County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Shelby/cem/ (18 Aug 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=776 (5 Sep 2009)

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

Shelby County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Shelby 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=6671 (12 Nov 2008)

The USGenWeb Illinois Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/shelby/shelcem.htm (7 Dec 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Shelby 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/SH.html#CEM (26 Mar 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=86 (7 Mar 2011)

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

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Surveys in Shelby County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 27 Townships

The Third Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Shelby County. You can navigate to any of the 27 survey townships that overlap Shelby County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Shelby County

24 Townships

Ash Grove	Big Spring	Clarksburg	Cold Spring
Dry Point	Flat Branch	Herrick	Holland
Lakewood	Moweaqua	Oconee	Okaw
Penn	Pickaway	Prairie	Richland
Ridge	Rose	Rural	Shelbyville
Sigel	Todds Point	Tower Hill	Windsor

Cities of Shelby County

3 Cities, 1 Town, 8 Villages, 27 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Clarksburg	Clarksburg	Cowden (village)	Dollville
Duvall	Fancher	Findlay (village)	Hanson
Henton	Herborn	Herrick (village)	Holliday
Kingman	Lakewood	Lithia	Middlesworth
Milne	Mode	Moweaqua (village)	Obed
Oconee (village)	Pana (city)	Pleak	Rennerville
Sexson Corner	Shelbyville (city)	Sigel (town)	South Strasburg
Stewardson (village)	Strasburg (village)	Todds Point	Tower Hill (village)
Trowbridge	Westervelt	Westminster (historical u.p.)	Williamsburg (historical u.p.)
Williamsburg Hill	Windsor (city)	Yantisville

Cemeteries of Shelby County

131 Cemeteries, 11 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Anderson	Armstrong	Ash Grove	Askins
Austin	Barker	Bateman	Bethany (Flat Branch Township)
Bethany (Windsor Township)	Bethel	Bruce	Brunswick
Caldwell	Center	Claridge	Clark
Cochran	Coons	Copperas	Corley
Craig	Cutler	Downey	Edwards
Eiler	Ellis	Findlay	Fortner
Foster	Gallagher Chapel	Gaskill	Giles
Glenwood	Grace	Graybill	Harmon
Helton	Henderson	Henton	Hilligoss
Hodson	Horsman	Howe	Hubbartt
Hudson (Lakewood Township)	Hudson (Shelbyville Township)	Independent Order of Oddfellows	Jordan
Knobs Baptist	Liston	Little Flock	Locust Grove
Lower Ash Grove	Ludwig	Mahoney	Martin
Masonic	Mautz	McCoy	Methodist
Middlesworth (Richland Township)	Middlesworth (Tower Hill Township)	Moberley	Moore
Mound (Cold Spring Township)	Mound (Dry Point Township)	Mound (Prairie Township)	Mount
Mount Carmel	Mount Hermon	Mount Olive	Mount Pleasant
Mount Zion	Moyer	Mt. (*)	Mt. Carmel (*)
Mt. Hermon (*)	Mt. Olive (*)	Mt. Pleasant (*)	Mt. Zion (*)
Mud Run	Myers	Neal	New Hope
Oak Grove	Oconee Mound	Oliver	Plank
Pleasant Grove	Pleasant Hill	Point Lookout	Prairie Home
Prairie Union	Price	Quigley	Raney
Red Bank	Reed	Rhodes	Richland
Ridge	Rincker	Robinson Creek	Rockford
Rose	Sacred Heart	Saint Johns	Saint Patick's
Saint Paul (Rural Township)	Saint Paul (Tower Hill Township)	Saint Paul's	Salem
Sand Creek	Shelby	Smith	Spain
St. Johns (*)	St. Patick's (*)	St. Paul (* Rural Township)	St. Paul (* Tower Hill Township)
St. Paul's (*)	Stewardson	Sulphur Springs	Swedish
Templeton	Tolley	Tower Hill	Traughber
Union (Clarksburg Township)	Union (Pickaway Township)	Wade	Walden
Walker	Wallis	Warren	Washington
Watton	Welborn	Wendling	Westside
Windsor	Wolf Creek

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