South Homer Township is a township in Champaign County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,601 and it contained 681 housing units. Geography South Homer is composed of parts of Townships 18 and 19 North, Range 11 East of the Third Principal Meridian; and Townships 18 and 19 North, Range 14 West of the Second Principal Meridian. When the federal township land surveys were done in 1821 one group of surveyors went west from the Second Principal Meridian and another went east from the Third Principal Meridian. Both groups used rawhide measuring lines that expanded and contracted with the weather. When the two groups met in eastern Champaign County the surveys didn't agree, resulting in double section numbers in the eastern townships and ongoing property line confusion among landowners. According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 98.94%) is land and (or 1.06%) is water. The Salt Fork of the Vermilion River winds its way through the north west section of the township. The confluence of lies in a farm field, in section 19 of the township. Cities and towns Homer Unincorporated towns State Road (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Cemeteries The township contains three cemeteries: Homer Grand Army of the Republic (Section 9, T18N, R14W, Village of Homer), Lost Grove (Section 30, T18N, R11E) and Old Homer—Dunkard Cemetery (Section 32, T19N, R14W). Grain elevators Homer elevators (Sections 8 and 9, T18N, R14W) were built along the Wabash—Norfolk Southern railroad. J.C. Koehn operated an elevator in 1929. Mills In 1834 Moses Thomas, a native of Pennsylvania, built a water-powered grist and sawmill on the Salt Fork creek about a mile north of the present village of Homer (Section 33, T19N, R14W) and began to mill grain. The millpond and dam formed the central attraction of the Homer Park amusement area 1905–1931. The site is now part of the Homer Lake Forest Preserve. Homer Park Homer Park was a rural amusement area on the Salt Fork river established in 1905 on the Illinois Traction System electric interurban north−south line between Ogden and Homer. Built at the site of the Moses Thomas mill of the 1830s it was intended to provide a recreational destination for riders of the trolley cars. The interurban bridge, a high trestle structure, ran straight across a lake created