Plat

These images are of the four boundary corners of John W. Vance's land in unincorporated Urbana, Illinois. Vance moved to
Vermillion County, Illinois in 1824 and bought scattered parcels of land. As the US was land rich and money poor, this land
was easily divided through the plat maps of the time, which created named townships of thirty-six square miles containing
numbered sections of one square mile each.

Though Vance bought his land from the government as a part of Vermillion County, when the counties were divided into more
manageable sections in 1833, much of his land became a part of Champaign Co. and Urbana, Illinois. This is the land.

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