2015 Map of Perdueville

About this map

Perdueville and the surrounding prairie of eastern Illinois are defined by an extensive network of human-engineered waterways. This 2015 landscape shows how agricultural drainage systems like Big Four Ditch, Wall-Town Drainage Ditch, and Hillsbury Slough have fundamentally altered the natural hydrology to support productive farmland. The area is punctuated by several significant burial sites, including Meharry Cem, Ten-Mile Grove Cem, Pontoppidan Cem, and Farmersville Cem, which offer vital touchpoints for genealogical research in this part of Ford and Champaign Counties. While the settlement of Paxton anchors the eastern edge with its infrastructure and the Paxton Airport, the southern boundary reaches into Ludlow. The map provides a clear record of the intersection between established rural cemeteries and the modern township road grid, preserving the names of the early communities that originally formed around these drainage districts.