Land, Peoria County, IL Genealogy Trails

Land Things

Street Name Changes	Federal Land Patents
History of Streets and Area Names
	Land News Articles from the newspaper on land sales or city improvements.
Old Buildings Old Homes	Land Titles Deeds, mortgages and other land transfers from local newspapers .

The Time Line for the surveying of Peoria County:

- North Line boundary was surveyed in Aug & Sept. 1816 by Amos Wheeler
- South and West Boundary were surveyed in Feb. 1817 and the sub division lines in march 1817 by Thomas Willis
- The lots in the Town of Peoria were surveyed 3rd of March 1835
- The lot lines of the "Old and New" Villages of Peoria were surveyed in the 2nd Quarter of 1837 by Joseph C. Brown
- The remaining Lots where surveyed March 31, 1842 by D.A. Spaulding
- This is what the Surveyor's office in St. Louis 2-11-1846

Notes from the Federal Township Plats of Illinois 1804-1891, http://landplats.ilsos.net/Flash/FTP_Illinois.html