Cheneyville is an unincorporated community in Grant Township

Grant Township, Vermilion County, Illinois

Grant Township is a township in Vermilion County, Illinois, USA. At the 2000 census, its population was 6,672.-Geography:Grant Township covers an area of ; of this, or 0.04 percent is water.-Cities and towns:* Hoopeston* Rossville...

, Vermilion County

Vermilion County, Illinois

Vermilion County is a county located in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois, between the Indiana border and Champaign County. It was established in 1826 and was the 45th of Illinois' 102 counties...

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

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History

Cheneyville was founded in 1871 and platted in 1880. It was named for J. H. Cheney, the vice-president of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad

Lake Erie and Western Railroad

The Lake Erie and Western Railroad was a railroad that operated in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.-The beginning:The Seney Syndicate linked several short railroads in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to form the Lake Erie and Western Railroad in 1879 and 1880...

. A telephone system was installed in 1888 and soon had to be expanded due to rising demand.

Geography

Cheneyville is located at 40°28′9"N 87°35′5"W (40.4692031, -87.5847437), about four miles east of the village of Hoopeston

Hoopeston, Illinois

Hoopeston is a city in Grant Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. It is part of the Danville, Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,965 at the 2000 census, and 5,602 in 2009.-History:Hoopeston was laid out in 1871...

and less than two miles south of the northern border of the county.

External links

• NACo