2015 Map of Stanford

About this map

Stanford serves as the central hub of this agricultural landscape in McLean County, where a grid of rural roads connects outlying farmsteads and historic sites. The village itself is defined by a small residential core centered on W Main St and N Division St, surrounded by the wide-open reaches of the Illinois prairie. Water drainage follows a dendritic pattern through the fields, led by the Middle Fork Sugar Cr and its tributaries, including Kings Mill Cr and the W Fork Sugar Cr, which eventually converge into Sugar Creek in the south. Genealogists and local historians can locate established burial grounds like Mount Pleasant Cem north of the village and Brooks Grove Cem to the southwest, both situated along the winding creek beds that break the geometric regularity of the section lines.