Do you know of Brewer ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Brewer. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Brewer.

We found mention of Brewer as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Vermilion County, Illinois.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Communities Also Named Brewer ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Brewer.

Within Illinois, the name Brewer is unique.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Cleburne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Brewer [Cleburne County].
- Georgia
  - Effingham County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Brewer [Effingham County].
  - Long County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Brewer [Long County].
- Kansas
  - Ottawa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Brewer [Ottawa County].
- Maine
  - Penobscot County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Brewer [Penobscot County].
- Michigan
  - Saginaw County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Brewer [Saginaw County].
- Minnesota
  - Saint Louis County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Brewer [Saint Louis County].
- Mississippi
  - Clarke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Brewer [Clarke County].
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Brewer [Lee County].
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Brewer [Perry County].
- Missouri
  - Perry County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Brewer [Perry County].
- Montana
  - Broadwater County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Brewer [Broadwater County].
- Nebraska
  - Keya Paha County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Brewer [Keya Paha County].
- Ohio
  - Fairfield County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Brewer [Fairfield County].
- Oklahoma
  - Pittsburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Brewer [Pittsburg County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Brewer.
- Texas
  - Freestone County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Brewer [Freestone County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brewer ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Brewer:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Brewer - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

The FIPS database contains an entry for Brewer.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 17/08043 (Place Name: Brewer)

County: Vermilion (FIPS State/County: 17/183)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, Brewer) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in Vermilion County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Vermilion County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Brewer could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.