Sidney Township, Champaign County, Illinois


Sidney Township is a township in Champaign County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,733 and it contained 715 housing units.

Geography

Sidney is Township 18 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal Meridian.
According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of, of which is land and is water. The stream of Rush Branch runs through this township. The Salt Fork of the Vermilion River winds its way through the northern sections of the township. Frito-Lay has a large corn handling facility located in section 12 along the county highway between Sidney and Homer; it sits near a major Norfolk Southern east-west rail line.

Cities and towns

The township contains six cemeteries: Bliss, Boys Family, Brownfield, Brumley, Lynn Grove and Mount Hope.

Grain Elevators

Block elevators. Two elevators were built along the Chicago and Eastern Illinois—Union Pacific railroad. Isaac Cole Grain and Coal operated a wooden elevator there in 1913.
Deers elevator was built along the Wabash—Norfolk Southern railroad spur, and was operated by Dryer and Burt Grain and Coal in 1913. The railroad spur and elevator are both gone.
Sidney elevator was built along the Wabash—Norfolk Southern railroad, and was operated by Isaac Cole Grain and Coal in 1913; Sidney Grain Company in 1929.

Mills

George Akers built a water powered mill on the Salt Fork in Section 2 before 1850.

Airports and landing strips