Richmond Township is located in McHenry County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,683 and it contained 2,685 housing units. It includes the census-designated place of Solon Mills.
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Richmond-Burton Community High School is a four-year public high school located in Richmond, Illinois, United States. One middle school feeds into the high school.
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Solon Mills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McHenry County, Illinois, United States. Solon Mills is located on U.S. Route 12, 2 miles southwest of Spring Grove. Solon Mills is part of ZIP code 60071; it once had its own post office with ZIP code 60080 before it closed on September 28, 2002. It was named a CDP before the 2020 census, at which time it had a population of 133.
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Spring Grove is a village in McHenry County, Illinois, United States. It is a commuter village within the Chicago metropolitan area. Per the 2020 census, the population was 5,487.
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Burton Township is the smallest of 17 townships in McHenry County, Illinois. As of the 2020 census, its population was 4,820 and it contained 1,858 housing units.
Burton Township was first settled by Englishmen in 1836 who gave it the name English Prairie. Later settlers called the township Benton, but after learning that there already was a post office and township of Benton in southern Illinois, the name was changed to Burton on December 28, 1850. Burton Township is unusually small because its first residents broke from Richmond Township to its west. The reason for this was a "Hatfields vs. McCoys" type of feud in the 1840s over alleged township mismanagement and higher taxes in Richmond. The Burton settlers opted out and even tried to have adjoining Lake County absorb them into its eastern neighbor, Antioch Township, but Antioch Township had just consolidated Cooper Township into itself, and since Burton Township was situated in another county, a special law needed to be passed in Springfield to affect that change.
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Johnsburg High School is a public secondary school in Johnsburg, Illinois; it serves grades 9–12 for the Johnsburg Community Unit School District #12. District 12 serves students in Johnsburg and Ringwood, and small portions of McHenry, Pistakee Highlands, and Spring Grove.
The school opened in 1978 and has an enrollment of approximately 600 students.