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Office: Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office – 166 Courthouse Square, Toledo, IL 62468 | (217) 849-2571 | Fax (217) 849-2519 | Email: [email protected]; Sheriff Steve Maroon, over three decades of law enforcement experience. Serving roughly 10,450 residents across 346 square miles. Jail capacity 33 beds.
Notes: For an active emergency, call 911.
Roads & Utilities
ROADS & TRANSPORTATION
Roads: I-70 (Exit 119) and SR-130/121 serve Toledo, the county seat; Neoga is the county’s largest city. Cumberland County is part of the Charleston-Mattoon Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Notes: Cumberland County was created March 2, 1823, from parts of Coles County. Its name is genuinely distinctive among Illinois counties, since it was named not for a person but for the National Road (also called the Cumberland Road), which was projected – though never fully completed – to run through the county.
Business & Permits
BUILDING & PERMITS
Office: Cumberland County Courthouse – Courthouse Square, Toledo, IL (built 1887-1888, architects S.S. Goehring and L.L. Pierson; National Register of Historic Places since 1981; the county’s second courthouse, built on the same site as the first, which was constructed in 1856 and burned in 1885).
Notes: Confirm current contact for county departments via cumberlandcoil.gov.
Veterans Services
VETERANS SERVICES
Office: Cumberland County Veterans Assistance – confirm current contact via cumberlandcoil.gov.
Libraries
LIBRARIES
Toledo Public Library (Toledo) – confirm current address/phone via the county library system.
Parks & Recreation
PARKS & RECREATION
Key Assets: The Cumberland County Courthouse (National Register of Historic Places) and downtown Toledo’s Courthouse Square are the county’s premier heritage attractions.
Notes: The genuine distinction of Cumberland County being named for a road rather than a person – the historic National Road – is among the standout local facts covered in this project.
GIS & Maps
GIS & MAPS
Appraisal/Parcel Search: Cumberland County Assessor’s Office – confirm current contact via cumberlandcoil.gov.
Animal Services
ANIMAL SERVICES
Confirm current dedicated shelter contact via cumberlandcoil.gov; Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office for animal control arrangements.
Environmental & Waste
ENVIRONMENTAL / WASTE MANAGEMENT
Office: Cumberland County Environmental Health – confirm current contact via cumberlandcoil.gov.
NOTES: Cumberland County is the eighteenth county completed in Illinois’s Round 3 v2 redo, under the A+ sourced standard established for this project. The genuine distinction of Cumberland County being named for a road rather than a person is among the standout local facts covered in this project. All contact information above was sourced via web search as of early August 2026 and should be reconfirmed directly with the relevant office before a visit, deadline-sensitive filing, or emergency-adjacent decision.
About Cumberland County County
Cumberland County is east-central Illinois’s Embarras River and prairie agricultural county – the locally-pronounced “Ambraw” River and the flat, extraordinarily fertile glacial till soils that produce some of Illinois’s highest corn and soybean yields define a quiet farming county where Toledo serves the surrounding agricultural communities between Effingham and the Wabash River.
Toledo (the county seat, population ~1,100) is Cumberland County’s governmental hub, a small east-central Illinois agricultural community on US 40 serving the county’s farming communities in the Embarras River watershed.
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Cumberland County Supervisor of Assessments at 1 Courthouse Square, Toledo, IL 62468, phone 217-849-3601. IL assessed at 33.33% of market value.
Courts & Legal
Cumberland County Circuit Court at 1 Courthouse Square, Toledo, IL 62468, phone 217-849-3601, handles probate.
Marriage & Vital Records
Marriage licenses, divorce records, and birth & death certificates are handled by the following office(s):
COUNTY CLERK (Records, Vital Records, Elections)
201 W. Washington St., Toledo, IL 62468
(217) 849-2631
CIRCUIT CLERK (Court Records, Marriage Licenses)
201 W. Washington St., Toledo, IL 62468
(217) 849-2321
ELECTIONS (County Clerk)
201 W. Washington St., Toledo, IL 62468
(217) 849-2631
Genealogy
County-level record sources
Cumberland County Circuit Clerk (probate/estate case files – see Probate section above).
Cumberland County is part of the Charleston-Mattoon, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Local societies
No dedicated Cumberland County genealogical society was confirmed in available directories.
Probate & Estate
Losing someone and having to deal with courts and paperwork at the same time is hard. This section won’t make that easier, but it should tell you what to expect, what it costs, and where to go – so at least you’re not walking in blind.
Where to go
Cumberland County Circuit Clerk (Fifth Judicial Circuit) 1 Courthouse Square, Toledo, IL 62468 (217) 849-3601 / (217) 849-3871
Cumberland County was founded in 1823, named for the historic Cumberland Road. The 1887-88 Cumberland County Courthouse in Toledo (National Register of Historic Places) is the county’s second courthouse – the first burned in 1885.
Step 1: figure out which path applies
Illinois has NOT adopted the Uniform Probate Code and is not a community property state – it follows common law property principles. Illinois probate is governed by the Probate Act of 1975 (755 ILCS 5/). Two main paths:
Small Estate Affidavit – for estates where personal property (excluding real estate) is valued at $150,000 or less (raised from $100,000 effective August 15, 2025), with no unresolved debts or claims and no real estate involved. No formal court probate is required.
Formal Probate (Independent or Supervised Administration) – required when the estate doesn’t qualify for the small estate affidavit. Most Illinois probate cases proceed under Independent Administration, letting the estate representative act without prior court approval for most routine actions.
Step 2: filing for formal probate
File the decedent’s original will (if one exists) with the Cumberland County Circuit Clerk, where the decedent resided at death.
Petition the court to open the estate and appoint an executor (if there’s a will) or an administrator (if intestate).
The court issues Letters of Office (Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration) appointing the representative.
Publish notice to creditors and unknown heirs as required by Illinois law.
Under Independent Administration, the representative marshals assets, pays valid debts and taxes, and distributes the remaining estate without needing court approval for each step.
File a final accounting or closing documents to formally close the estate.
NOTE: Cumberland County offers e-filing (see illinoiscourts.gov/self-help/how-to-e-file) for parties not represented by an attorney.
What it costs
Illinois imposes its own state estate tax on estates valued above $4 million, with rates up to 16%. There is no Illinois inheritance tax.
Filing fees vary by county – confirm current amounts with the Cumberland County Circuit Clerk.
Most uncontested probate proceedings in Illinois can be completed within about a year.
Probate filings, estate administration, and guardianship matters are handled by the following office(s):
Public Safety & Arrests
Arrest records, inmate search, and law enforcement services are handled by the following office(s):
SHERIFF
201 W. Washington St., Toledo, IL 62468
(217) 849-2721
Elections & Voting
Voter registration, polling locations, and elections information are handled by the following office(s):
COUNTY CLERK (Records, Vital Records, Elections)
201 W. Washington St., Toledo, IL 62468
(217) 849-2631
ELECTIONS (County Clerk)
201 W. Washington St., Toledo, IL 62468
(217) 849-2631
Health & Human Services
Offices & Contacts
Health services, social services, and assistance programs are handled by the following office(s):
Cumberland County Health Dept
(217) 849-3351
IL DCFS — Charleston
(217) 348-7115
IL Medicaid
(800) 843-6154
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center (Mattoon)
sarahbush.org
Public Health Information
PUBLIC HEALTH
Office: Cumberland County Health Department – confirm current contact via cumberlandcoil.gov.
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County Facts
County Seat: Toledo
Population: 10,500
Area: 346 sq mi
Established: 1843
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