Welcome to Newman Township's website!

Visit the Officials Page to meet your township officials.

Newman Township is located on the east side of Douglas County, IL, or about 90 miles east of Springfield, IL. Newman Township is a rural township; the main source of income is farming. The population of Newman Township and the city of Newman is 1,200. 

All regular monthly meetings will be held on the 2^nd Friday of each month starting at 5:00 pm, unless otherwise rescheduled, postponed or continued. 

In February 2001, Newman Township Road Commissioner Olen Kibler received a $120,000 grant from the state of Illinois to build a new township building. The new building has offices for the Supervisor, Clerk, Assessor and Highway Commissioner. It also has a large meeting room and a 60ft. X 60ft. maintenance garage for the highway equipment.

Cities in the township include: City of Newman.

Cemeteries in Newman Township

Newman Cemetery, located on

Fairfield Cemetery, located on

Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, located on

 2004  EAV  $15,180,464                         2005 EAV $15,042,652

Farm 50.59%                                                 Farm 47.06%

Residential 34.97%                                         Residential 37.15%

Commercial 10.79%                                       Commercial 11.98%

Industrial 3.08%                                             Industrial 3.20%

State Railroad 0.57%                                      State Railroad 0.61%

Newman Township Road District maintains 63 miles of township roads and 13 miles of county roads along with 16 township bridges and three county bridges.

In April 2003, Douglas County did away with their maintenance crew and turned over all maintenance of roads and bridges to the nine townships in Douglas County. In return, the county pays the townships $1,200/mile to do the maintenance and the county pays for all the material and any work that is done on county roads and bridges.