• Telephone:

County Clerk
Circuit Clerk
Recorder
 

(815) 244-0221
(815) 244-0230
(815) 244-0223
 

• Telephone: (815) 753-1807

Established:

February 22, 1839 (Laws, 1839, p. 160)

Origin of the name of the county:

Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in:

1827–1839

JoDaviess

1825–1827

Putnam

1825–1827

Henry

1823–1825

Fulton

1821–1823

Pike

1812–1821

Madison

1795–1812

St. Clair

County Seats:

1839–1843

Savanna

1843–

Mt. Carroll

History of county governing board:

1839–1850

County Commissioners’ Court

1850–

County Board of Supervisors

Township Government

Adopted:

November 6, 1849

Township Names

Cherry Grove

Originally included the area of Shannon (first designated Lost Grove) as a temporary attachment.

Elkhorn Grove

Fairhaven

Formed from territories originally attached to Harlem (York) and Wysox (date unknown).

Freedom

Lima

Originally included the east half of Rock Creek as a temporary attachment.

Mt. Carroll

Rock Creek

The west half of township was originally attached temporarily to Rosehall (Salem) and the east half to Lima (date of uniting two halves unknown).

Salem

Name changed from Rosehall (date unknown); originally included west half of Rock Creek as a temporary attachment..

Savanna

Originally included as temporary attachments an area called Rush Creek (eastern part of Washington) and an area called Portsmouth (western part of Washington).

Shannon

Formed from territory originally designated Lost Grove and attached temporarily to Cherry Grove (date unknown).

Washington

Created from territories originally designated Portsmouth (western part) and Rush Creek (eastern part) and attached temporarily to Savanna (date unknown).

Woodland

Wysox

Originally included southeast part of Fairhaven as a temporary attachment.

York

Name changed from Harlem (date unknown); originally included much of Fairhaven as a temporary attachment; western part, originally designated Bluffville, was also included as a temporary attachment that later became permanent.

Township Map

Click on thumbnail to view a map of Carroll County and its civil and congressional townships.

• Local Governmental Records Database
• Name Index to Illinois Local Governments
• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index
• Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916–1950
• Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database
• Federal Township Plats of Illinois
• Carroll County Birth Certificate Index (1877–1913)

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