Wayne County, Illinois, United States

Details for Wayne County

Name

Wayne County

Place Type

County

Located in

Illinois, United States

County Seat

Fairfield

Coordinates

Latitude		38.4333815		38° 26' 00.2" N
Longitude		-88.4167145		88° 25' 00.2" W

Population

17,241

Elevation

137 m

Surrounding Counties

Richland NE
Edwards E
White SE
Hamilton S
Jefferson W
Marion NW
Clay N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

424296

Histopolis Place ID

923782712

Updated Dec 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Wayne 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=785 (6 Sep 2009)

Wayne County, Illinois County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Wayne County, Illinois, IL - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=6776 (20 Aug 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Wayne 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/WY.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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

EveryNameIndex.com - Every Name Index to History of Wayne & Clay Co, IL (1884) [everynameindex.com] Added Dec 3, 2011
Compiled by Cathy L. O'Connor, 2010. Original text by Globe Publishing Co., 1884, reproduction by Unigraphic, Inc., 1970. This index contains over 18,100 entries.
http://www.everynameindex.com/ClayCoIL.html (2 Dec 2011)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Wayne County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Wayne County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Wayne/cem/ (20 Aug 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=96 (10 Mar 2011)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Wayne County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Wayne County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Wayne/ (15 Feb 2010)

Wayne County, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_County,_Illinois (19 Jul 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Wayne County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=6776&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (26 Jan 2008)

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Surveys in Wayne County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 25 Townships

The Third Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Wayne County. You can navigate to any of the 25 survey townships that overlap Wayne County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Wayne County

20 Townships

Arrington	Barnhill	Bedford	Berry
Big Mound	Elm River	Four Mile	Garden Hill
Grover	Hickory Hill	Indian Prairie	Jasper
Keith	Lamard	Leech	Massilon
Mount Erie	Orchard	Orel	Zif

Cities of Wayne County

1 City, 9 Villages, 22 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Barnhill	Blue Point	Boyleston	Campbell
Cincinnati	Cisne (village)	Covington	Crisp
Enterprise	Fairfield (city)	Geff (village)	Golden Gate (village)
Hubbard	Johnsonville (village)	Keenes (village)	Keenesville
Klines Corner	Mayberry	Merriam	Middleton
Mill Shoals (village)	Mount Erie (village)	New Massillon (historical u.p.)	Orchardville
Rinard	Round Prairie	Scottsville	Sims (village)
Smithville	Toms Prairie	Wayne City (village)	Zenith

Cemeteries of Wayne County

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

Anderson	Antioch	Atteberry (Barnhill Township)	Atteberry (Hickory Hill Township)
Baltimore	Barah	Barth	Bethany
Bovee	Bradford	Brown	Bruce
Buckeye	Bull	Cambell	Cariens
Cates	Cincinnati	Cisne	Cisne Family
Clark	Crask	Crews (Massilon Township)	Crews (Mount Erie Township)
Curry	Day	Dobbs	Ebenezer
Egbert	Evangelical	Fitch	Forth
Gardner	Garrison Temple	Gash	Gifford
Hale	Hall	Harmon	Harrell
Hearn	Henson	Hopewell	Jacob Chapel
Jeffersonville	Johnson (Arrington Township)	Johnson (Mount Erie Township)	Johnsonville
Kincheloe	Koontz	Laird	Lappin
Lee	Locust Grove	Madden	Maple Hill
McKendrie	Mount Pleasant	Mount Zion	Moutray
Mt. Pleasant (*)	Mt. Zion (*)	Nunn	Posey
Pruitt	Puckett	Russell	Salem
Scott	Shaeffer (Fairfield, Grover Township)	Shaeffer (Grover Township)	Simpson
Smith	Smyer Old	South Toms Prairie	Stewart
Stine	Ten Post Oak	Thomas Hill	Thomason
Traverse	Trotter	Tyler	Vernon
Victory	Walker	Wells	Wesley Chapel
Williams	Willow Branch	Wilson	Winland
Wolfe	Wood	Wright (Barnhill Township)	Wright (Zif Township)
Young	Zif

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