Addresses for County Courthouse and IRAD:

Established:		February 17, 1859 (Laws, 1859, p. 29)
Origin of the name of the county:
	Named after Thomas Ford, the eighth Governor of the State of Illinois. Ford served Governor of the State of Illinois from December 8, 1842 to December 9, 1846.
Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in:
	1826–1859	Vermilion
	1823–1826	Edgar
	1819–1823	Clark
	1816–1819	Crawford
	1815–1816	Edwards
	1812–1815	Madison
	1801–1812	St. Clair
	1790–1801	Knox, Northwest Territory
County Seat:
	1859–	Paxton—Name changed from Prospect City in September, 1859.
History of county governing board:
	1859–1861	County Court
	1861–	County Board of Supervisors
Township Government
	Adopted:	November 6, 1860
		The area included in Ford County was first organized into townships while it was still a part of Vermilion County. Some of the notes below are based on Vermilion County records.
Township Names:
	Brenton	Name changed from Stockton on May 9, 1864; Stockton was formed from part of Patton on March 15, 1859.
	Button	Formed from Patton in December, 1864.
	Dix	Name changed from Drummer Grove in September 2, 1864.
	Drummer	Formed from Dix on March 1, 1869.
	Lyman	Formed from Brenton on September 9, 1867.
	Mona	Formed as Delhi from Rogers on March 2, 1870; name changed to Mona on June 16, 1870.
	Patton	Named Prairie City when established as a township in Vermilion County; name changed to Patton on September 14, 1857.
	Peach Orchard	Formed from Sullivant on September 14, 1868.
	Pella	Formed as Clyde from Brenton on March 2, 1870; name changed to Pella on June 16, 1870.
	Rogers	Formed as Grant from Stockton (Brenton) in September, 1863; name changed to Rogers on May 9, 1864.
	Sullivant	Formed from Dix on September 9, 1867.
	Wall	Formed from Patton on June 12, 1867.