Cleone, Illinois
Cleone, Illinois | |
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  Cleone, Illinois Location within Illinois  Cleone, Illinois Location within the United States | |
| Coordinates: 39°25′23″N 87°54′27″W / 39.42306°N 87.90750°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Illinois |
| County | Clark |
| Elevation | 650 ft (200 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 217 |
| GNIS feature ID | 422562[1] |
Cleone is an unincorporated rural community in Parker Township, Clark County, Illinois, United States. Cleone is 7 miles (11 km) north of Martinsville.
Around 1900, Cleone was a rural community with a grocery store, farm supply store, and post office. It had a post office from 1886 through 1906. By around 1950, all that remained were a few houses and general store, which eventually all yielded to a lone cemetery. The community was also known early on as "Hammond Settlement" or "Hammond Center", since many of that surname lived in the area.[2][3][4]
One 1950 publication calls Cleone "a small community in Clark County, near Martinsville, where ... baseball was the grand passion."[5]
References
- 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cleone, Illinois
- ↑ Towns and Communities, Clark County Illinois Genealogy and History, Retrieved 15 July 2026
- ↑ (2 November 1946). Farmers Market, Clark County Farm Bureau News (listing a "Bob Hammond, Cleone" selling his 1940 Chevy)
- ↑ Geneological and biographical notes on the Tarbell-Tarble family, also associated families (1962), p. 4 (references general store in Cleone, source has many references to people living in Cleone)
- ↑ Eastern Illinois State Teachers College Bulletin, p. 149 (1950)
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |