Foosland, IL

Foosland is a village in Brown Township, Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 75 residents. The village is named after William Foos, who owned 3,500 acres in the area in the 1840s. Foosland was founded in 1867 and a post office was established on June 6th or 7th that year. In Foosland, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Foosland, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. The town is named after William Foos, an Ohioan who was instrumental in the establishment of the town, and in the placement there of a station of the Chicago-Paducah railroad. Foosland is located in the northwest corner of Champaign County three miles southeast of Illinois Route 54. Gibson City lies nine miles to the northeast along Route 54 and Champaign is approximately 22 miles to the southeast.