South Homer Township, Champaign County, Illinois


South Homer Township is a township in Champaign County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,601 and it contained 681 housing units.

Geography

South Homer is composed of parts of Townships 18 and 19 North, Range 11 East of the Third Principal Meridian; and Townships 18 and 19 North, Range 14 West of the Second Principal Meridian.
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which is land and is water. The Salt Fork of the Vermilion River winds its way through the north west section of the township. The confluence of lies in a farm field, in section 19 of the township.

Cities and towns

The township contains three cemeteries: Homer Grand Army of the Republic, Lost Grove and Old Homer—Dunkard Cemetery.

Grain elevators

Homer elevators were built along the Wabash—Norfolk Southern railroad. J.C. Koehn operated an elevator in 1929.

Mills

In 1834 Moses Thomas, a native of Pennsylvania, built a water-powered grist and sawmill on the Salt Fork creek about a mile north of the present village of Homer and began to mill grain. The millpond and dam formed the central attraction of the Homer Park amusement area 1905-1937. The site is now part of the Homer Lake Forest Preserve.

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