Hamel
October 29, 2017
Last modified: December 13, 2017
John Edgar was the first American to have his farmland recorded in Township 5 North, Range 7 West in 1815.1 The township was later named for A. J. Hamel, a township resident who established a flour mill and general store in the 1860s.3 The village of Hamel was officially incorporated February 19, 1955,2 and in 1960 the village had a population of 362.4 As of the 2010 census, the village of Hamel has 816 residents.5
Hamel in 2017
From the Maps & Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office
To access the village of Hamel’s website, follow this link.
Endnotes
| 1. | arrow_upward | History of Madison County, Illinois, Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers (Edwardsville: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), 532. |
| 2. | arrow_upward | Flagg, James S., editor, Our 150 Years, 1812-1962. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61. |
| 3. | arrow_upward | Ibid., 533 |
| 4. | arrow_upward | 1960 Census of Population, Advance Reports, Final Population Counts: Illinois (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 1960), 17. |
| 5. | arrow_upward | Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 64. |
Hamel Articles (4 Total)
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Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
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Route 66 in Madison CountyApril 9, 2018 by Cheryl Eichar Jett |
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St. Paul Lutheran Church in HamelMay 1, 2019 by Chase Langendorf |
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Weezy’s Route 66 Bar & GrillOctober 2, 2018 by Nichol Allen |
Cite this article: Nichol Allen, "Hamel," Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive for Madison County, Illinois, last modified December 13, 2017, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/encyclopedia/hamel/.
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