This dataset is a derivative of the Federal Township Plats for Lake County, Illinois, the originals of which were captured on a high-resolution scanner by the Illinois State Archives. The Lake County GIS/Mapping division received permission to acquire and georeference these images using ERDAS Imagine. Since the source material was distorted in an unsystematic way due to the rigors of time and points of reference were abundant, the rubber sheeting model in Imagine with the linear option was chosen to rectify the images. The USGS delineations of the section corners for their 1:24,000 scale 7.5 minute quadrangles were chosen as a base because they are a publicly available resource that exists for the entire state of Illinois should any other counties or organizations wish to make a similar product. This final product consists of a mosaic of the townships in Lake County also created in Imagine using their mosaic tool with each township being cropped to its border in the process.