The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusCooper Township is a rural township in Sangamon County, Illinois, covering about 28.7 square miles, almost all of which is land, and home to 758 residents as of 2020. It is a small but relatively affluent community with an older population, strong homeownership, high educational attainment, and income levels above state and national averages.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 893 people in 2010, 898 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1992.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Cooper yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Cooper’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cooper’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Cooper, decade by decade
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.