Isabel Township, Fulton County, Illinois

Isabel Township
Township
Location in Fulton County
Fulton County's location in Illinois
Coordinates: 40°18′27″N 90°09′46″W / 40.30750°N 90.16278°W / 40.30750; -90.16278Coordinates: 40°18′27″N 90°09′46″W / 40.30750°N 90.16278°W / 40.30750; -90.16278
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Fulton
Established	November 6, 1849
Area
• Total	29.37 sq mi (76.1 km²)
• Land	29.23 sq mi (75.7 km²)
• Water	0.14 sq mi (0.4 km²) 0.48%
Elevation	495 ft (151 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	192
• Density	6.6/sq mi (2.5/km²)
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes	61441, 61501, 61542 62644
GNIS feature ID	0429175

Isabel Township is one of twenty-six townships in Fulton County, Illinois, USA. At the 2010 census, its population was 192 and it contained 87 housing units.^[1]

Administration history

Township Supervisors

Name	Year	Name	Year
Jeremiah Farris	1850-51	William Farris	1866-69
Robert Carter	1852-53	Josiah Hendee	1870
William Craig	1854-55	T.B. Duncan	1871
Alex Freeman	1856-57	John Lane	1872
Robert Carter	1858	Robert K. Walker	1873
Alex Freeman	1859	James M. Lane	1874-75
C.J. Dilworth	1860	Robert G. Mulica	1876
John Lane	1861-64	James Foutch	1877-79
William Craig	1865

Town Clerks

Jesse Benson……....1850 Robert G. Mulica..1872-73
William Craig.....1860 Jesse Benson.........1874-77
Jesse Benson......1861-69 Stephen J. Benson.1878
Roland C. Benson..1870 Thomas Brown......1879
Hugh Murrey… …...1871

Local government

Township Supervisor

Greg Juergens (2005)
Dennis Barr (2001)
Gary Crum (1989)
Larry Tarvin (?)
Carl Gowdy (?)

Town Clerk

Janice Colglazier (2008)
Pat Robinson (1988)

Road Commissioner

Gary Whitmore (2015 )Appointed
Matt Stephens (2013) Resigned
Dennis Barr (2005)
Ed Weatherford (1997)
Carrol Weaver (1980)

Trustees

Monty Graham (
Craig Porter (
Pat Colglazier (2008)
Rose Juergens (2013)

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 168 Lewistown, IL. 61542

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of 29.37 square miles (76.1 km²), of which 29.23 square miles (75.7 km²) (or 99.52%) is land and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km²) (or 0.48%) is water.^[1]

Existing towns (unincorporated)

Duncan Mills - Duncan’s Mills is a small place of business with a post office on the Spoon River, deriving its name from the gris-tmill at the point formerly owned and operated by George Duncan, an early settler there, and a very highly respected citizen. From 1840 to 1855, perhaps for a greater length of time, his was the largest grist-mill within a radius of 15 to 20 miles.

Extinct towns

Otto
Spoon River village
West Havana
Point Isabel was an old shipping point on the Illinois River, at the mouth of the Spoon River and directly across from Havana, and was the southern terminus of the Fulton County Narrow Gauge railway connecting to Fairview and Galesburg.
Bessler's Station (aka Barrett's Station) was a station on the Narrow Gauge Railroad until 1910.

Cemeteries

The township contains six cemeteries: Duncan, Farris, Foutch, Freeman, Kearney and Otto.

Major highways

School districts

Lewistown School District 97

Political districts

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

References

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

External links

Havana Township, Mason County

Isabel Township

Woodland Township

Kerton 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

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