The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusNaples is an incorporated town in Scott County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 100 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Naples was established in 1839. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 130 to 100 (-23%). Half of its homes were built before 1975.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Naples 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 Naples’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Naples’s history is told.
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Naples, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Naples is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Naples has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln in Flint, 4.9 miles away.
Naples and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
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 (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.