Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Illinois/Townships

message: I am wondering, should we be putting in category establishments on all these townships? Example :Category:1876 establishments for one or another. If we should be doing this, I will have to start doing it from now on. I should have asked this before I started redoing them all. I will wait until I get at least one response back before starting to do this to all new articles. Would have to go back sometime or another to add them for all the others.--Kranar drogin 21:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Township Establishment Category 

message: I have finished the templates off finally. I will prolly be getting the rest of the templates up to par with the others soon enough.--Kranar drogin 11:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Templates Complete 

message: Or if someone could point me at any availible resources and I could accomplish this task myself. PreciousRoi (talk) 20:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe I can provide these maps; I'll check on it and get back to you. Omnedon (talk) 19:18, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks...I wwas hoping someone knew where to find images consistent with the rest used herePreciousRoi (talk) 21:59, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Hmm, the 10 'named' precincts (well 8 if them did) have existed since before Illinois was a state...I would hate to think that they've been abandoned...all of the early history of the county is based on them. I have a good map showing their boundaries, but not consistent with rest of wiki. I guess I could bodge something together, if I had to. I had hoping to deal with the history of the county based on these precincts. Translating the 10 precincts into 27 would be nightmarish, as well as meaningless, worse useless from a geographical point of view. PreciousRoi (talk) 22:32, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: How about a consistent "empty" map of Monroe County?PreciousRoi (talk) 22:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Yeah, they would be useless for anything aside from historical purposes. I was working off this, which was consistent with the 10 precincts named on the IRAD page, so I thought I was golden. I was hoping for something like :Image:Hardin Precinct Calhoun.PNG (I can't figure out how to link to an image without opening it, heh...the 27 precincts have almost nothing in common with the historical ones, any resemblance is incidental (there is almost none) PreciousRoi (talk) 23:26, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Meh, too bad...they are great for geographical and historic purposes. I'll have to ask someone up at the courthouse for a map to correct all the archaic information I've been adding. Stupid numbered precincts...convey exactly no information...PreciousRoi (talk) 23:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is a preliminary map of Monroe County highlighting the precincts according to the census TIGER data:  :Image:Precincts of Monroe County, Illinois.svg.  However, it is divided up into 12 larger precincts, and several much smaller ones that relate to the cities.  These are the numbered precincts.  I'm still researching this... If this map seems to be useful, I can label it.  Omnedon (talk) 03:33, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, would you happen to be able to point me toward something which would enable me to poitively locate the unincorporated communities by numbered precinct? Right now, I'd have to guess at some of them. Also, any sources you've run across which would indicate when the change from the 10 precincts was made...appears fairly obvious why the change was made...I know works published as late as the 60s referenced them, however these were derivative, if scholarly, works, almost assuredly drawing from the histories which were so popular in the 1880s...PreciousRoi (talk) 11:29, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Yeah, those look right, I had thought Ames was in Randolph Co. but, upon further examination, it is within Monroe. Damn, I was congratulating myself on "completeing" Monroe County...Ames and Burksville Station are probably worth adding though...Warnock, Fountain Gap, Ivy, Millstadt Junction, and Kidd perhaps less so...around here a settlement isn't notable unless it has a church and/or tavern, dunno if any of them every qualified...I'll have to get around to it though, I supposePreciousRoi (talk) 17:41, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for precinct maps for Monroe County