Plat Map

Below is a plat map of Cumberland County showing showing civil townships, cities, villages, and cemeteries, plus survey townships and sections. The information on the map was compiled from a variety of sources and may not be complete, especially with regard to cemeteries. If you see anything that needs added or corrected, please contact me. A big thank you goes to Glenna Tippett Mullen for her help in verifying many of the cemetery locations and her continuing efforts in improving the accuracy of the map.

You can use the map below in conjunction with the Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales database to pinpoint the exact locations of orginal land purchases in Cumberland County (county code 018). At the bottom of the page at the web site is a good description of how to use township, range, and section data to find a location. The database gives you the survey township (such as Twp. 9N), range (such as Rng. 8E), section number (1 to 36), and section part (such as NESW), which you can then use to find the location on the map.  More information land surveys in Illinois can be found at the Land Sales in Illinois web site.

The plat lines for the survey townships, ranges, and sections on the map below are not exactly as they appear on an actual detailed plat map.  I have straightened out and squared off the lines. An ideal section is a square of one mile on each side.  However, the realities of surveying the earth's surface has caused surveyors to slightly deform the survey lines in many places, so every section is not a perfect one-mile square.  But, the map below is accurate in the respect that the cities, villages, and cemeteries are shown in their true survey townships and sections.

Many of the places on the map can be found in the USGS Geographic Names Information System database. You can generate maps at this site that show other features such as highways, roads, railroads, rivers, etc.

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Cities and Villages

			Plat Location *
	Place Name	Township (civil)	Section Part	Section	Twp.	Rng.
	Bowman Ford 1	Greenup
	Bradbury	Cottonwood	NE - SW	7	10N	9E
	Casey 2	Union	SE - SE	19	10N	11E
	Cherwood Ford 1	Greenup
	Dees	Greenup	SE,SW - NW NE,NW - SW	14 "	9N "	9E "
	Diona 3	Union	[at intersection of]	24,25 19,30	11N 11N	9E 10E
	Greenup	Greenup	[parts of]	1,2,11,12 36	9N 10N	9E 9E
	Hazel Dell	Crooked Creek	[at intersection of]	23,24,25,26	9N	10E
	Janesville 3	Cottonwood	NE,NW - NW	30	11N	9E
	Jewett	Woodbury	[parts of]	24 19	9N 9N	8E 9E
	Johnstown	Cottonwood	NE,SE - SE	27	11N	8E
	Liberty Hill	Greenup	[at intersection of]	23,24,25,26	9N	9E
	Lillyville 1	Spring Point
	Maple Point	Union	SW - SE NW - NE	5 8	10N "	10E "
	McCann Ford 1	Cottonwood
	Montrose 4	Spring Point	SW - SW	36	9N	7E
	Neal	Neoga	[at intersection of]	17,18,19,20	10N	8E
	Neoga	Neoga	[parts of]	7,8,17,18	10N	7E
	Rocky Ford 1	Sumpter
	Roslyn	Spring Point	NE,SE - SE NW,SW - SW	11 12	9N "	7E "
	Timothy	Greenup/Union	[at intersection of]	17,18,19,20	10N	10E
	Toledo	Sumpter	[parts of]	25,36 30,31	10N 10N	8E 9E
	Trilla 3	Neoga	NW - NE	30	11N	8E
	Union Center	Union	[at intersection of]	3,4,9,10	10N	10E
	Walla Walla	Greenup	[at half-way point of border between]	21,28	9N	9E
	Woodbury	Woodbury	SW - NW SE - NE	27 28	9N 9N	8E 8E
	Vevay Park	Union	SE - SE	26	10N	10E

1	These places don't show up on the plat maps, but are listed in the USGS Geographic Names Information System as "populated places."
2	Casey is mainly in Clark County with a small western section in Cumberland County.
3	Diona, Janesville, and Trilla all lie directly on the Coles and Cumberland County border.
4	Montrose is mainly in Effingham County with a small northern section in Cumberland County.
*	For information on how to find a location with plat data, see the Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales web site.  The "section part" data, refers to section quarters.  For example, "NE - SW" refers to the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of a particular section.  Multiple designations mean the location spans more than one quarter.  For example, "NW,SW - NE" refers to the nortwest and southwest quarters of the northeast quarter of a particular section.  This is all described at the above-mentioned web site.