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Sheffield is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 821 at the 2020 census. The population was 821 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area .
The Union Army began camping on the property in December 1861, when the 56th Illinois Infantry occupied the land; the camp was named Camp Mather for Illinois adjutant general Thomas S. Mather. The camp, part of the Department of the Ohio , was one of two Union campsites near Shawneetown, the other being Camp Katie Yates.
This land was sold in 1996 to the State of Illinois to be an addition to the Harry "Babe" Woodyard State Natural Area. The Natural Area is named in honor of a local farmer Harry Woodyard from Ridge Farm, Illinois who was elected to represent his constituents in the Illinois House and Illinois Senate in 1979–1996.
As of the 2020 census [1] there were 1,423 people, 647 households, and 430 families residing in the township. The population density was 39.37 inhabitants per square mile (15.20/km 2).
The Sheffield Historic District is a national historic district in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district is primarily a residential area ...
The Goshen Settlement was an early American pioneer settlement in what is now Illinois, United States, located to the east of St. Louis, Missouri.The settlement was located about one mile (1.6 km) southwest of modern Glen Carbon, Illinois, at the point where Judy's Creek emerges from the bluffs into the American Bottoms, on its way to the Mississippi River.
Illinois Iron and Bolt Company building on the Fox River. Julius Angelo Carpenter (August 19, 1827 – March 30, 1880) was the founder of Carpentersville, Illinois and its first prominent citizen. Carpenter came with his family from Uxbridge, Massachusetts and settled near the Fox River, along with his father Charles Valentine Carpenter and his ...
Southern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois comprising the southern third of the state, principally south of Interstate 70.Part of downstate Illinois, it is bordered by the two most voluminous rivers in the United States: the Mississippi below its connection with the Missouri River to the west and the Ohio River to the east and south, with the tributary Wabash River, extending ...