The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusSelby Township is one of twenty-five townships in Bureau County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,152 and it contained 929 housing units.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,536 to 2,152 (-15%). Half of its homes were built before 1948.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Selby 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 Selby’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Selby’s history is told.
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2000
Nothing in Selby is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Selby has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Owen Lovejoy Homestead in Princeton, 5.8 miles away.
Selby 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 (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.