Deerfield Township, Fulton County, Illinois

Deerfield Township
Township
Location in Fulton County
Fulton County's location in Illinois
Coordinates: 40°34′38″N 90°15′32″W / 40.57722°N 90.25889°W / 40.57722; -90.25889Coordinates: 40°34′38″N 90°15′32″W / 40.57722°N 90.25889°W / 40.57722; -90.25889
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Fulton
Established	November 6, 1849
Area
• Total	34.33 sq mi (88.9 km2)
• Land	34.17 sq mi (88.5 km2)
• Water	0.16 sq mi (0.4 km2)  0.47%
Elevation	640 ft (195 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	261
• Density	7.6/sq mi (2.9/km2)
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes	61415, 61427, 61431, 61432, 61477, 61520
GNIS feature ID	0428880

Deerfield Township is one of twenty-six townships in Fulton County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 261 and it contained 137 housing units.^[1]

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 34.33 square miles (88.9 km²), of which 34.17 square miles (88.5 km²) (or 99.53%) is land and 0.16 square miles (0.41 km²) (or 0.47%) is water.^[1]

Extinct towns

• Blyton
• Midway is a small settlement south of Wiley church.
• Wiley was a town Emsley Wiley set a side 1-acre (4,000 m²) for a school & meeting house. He platted a city to be named Wiley but it did not materialize. His dream of a school & meeting house did and in 1839 the first rude log school was built. In 1844 Mr. & Mrs. Wiley sold their land & moved farther west, In 1880 the Wiley Lutheran Church was organized & still exists today along with the cemetery.
• Westminster was a paper town founded by David Everly after they moved here coming from the east. Only 3 lots were sold but the village never materialized and so ceased to exist.

Cemeteries

The township contains these four cemeteries: Dickson, Wiley, Lamb & Roberts.

Major highways

• Illinois Route 9

School districts

• Bushnell Prairie City Community Unit School District 170
• Community Unit School District 3 Fulton City
• Spoon River Valley Community Unit School District 4

Political districts

• Illinois' 17th congressional district
• State House District 94
• State Senate District 47

References

• "Deerfield Township, Fulton County, Illinois". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2010-01-16. 
• United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles
• United States National Atlas

1. 1 2 "Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County -- County Subdivision and Place -- 2010 Census Summary File 1". United States Census. Retrieved 2013-05-28. 

External links

• City-Data.com
• Illinois State Archives

	Ellisville Township	Young Hickory Township	Fairview Township
	Lee Township		Joshua Township
		Deerfield Township
	Harris Township	Cass Township	Putman Township

Municipalities and communities of Fulton County, Illinois, United States
County seat: Lewistown
Cities	Canton Cuba Farmington Lewistown
Town	Astoria
Villages	Avon‡ Banner Bryant Dunfermline Ellisville Fairview Ipava Liverpool London Mills‡ Marietta Norris Smithfield St. David Table Grove Vermont
Townships	Astoria Banner Bernadotte Buckheart Canton Cass Deerfield Ellisville Fairview Farmers Farmington Harris Isabel Joshua Kerton Lee Lewistown Liverpool Orion Pleasant Putman Union Vermont Waterford Woodland Young Hickory
Unincorporated communities	Babylon Beaty Bernadotte Blyton Breeds Brereton Checkrow Depler Springs Duncan Mills Enion Fiatt Gilchrist Leesburg Little America Manley Maples Mill Marbletown Middlegrove Monterey Poverty Ridge Rawalts Sepo Seville Summum
Ghost towns	Bybee Civer Midway Sugarville Tuscumbia
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties