2018 Map of Prentice

About this map

Yatesville and Prentice anchor this rural landscape in Morgan County, where the topography is defined by the branching tributaries of Little Indian Cr and Indian Cr. The map reveals a deeply rooted agricultural community organized along the Public Land Survey System, with numerous family-named roads like Dinwiddie Rd and Stice Rd tracing the section lines. This area is notable for its high density of small burial grounds, including Yatesville Cem, Flinn Cem, and Berea Cem, which often represent the last remaining physical markers of nineteenth-century pioneer families in the Illinois prairie. In the southern portion, the N Fork Mauvaise Terre Cr meanders through more varied elevation near Antioch Cem, illustrating the transition from flat upland farms to the creek bottoms that once facilitated early settlement and movement across the county.