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State: Illinois: County: Hardin: Elevation [1] 561 ft (171 m) ... UTC-5 (CDT) Area code: 618: GNIS feature ID: 424698 [1] Cadiz is an unincorporated community in ...
An Act to enable the people of the Illinois Territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states (April 18, 1818) Archived June 3, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; Resolution declaring the admission of the state of Illinois into the Union (December 3 ...
Hardin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 3,649, [1] making it the least populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Elizabethtown. [2] Hardin County is located in the part of the state known as Little Egypt.
Illinois: A History Of The Land And Its People. Buck, Solon J. (1917). Illinois in 1818. The Centennial History of Illinois a famous series by leading scholars; the copyright has expired and the books are in the public domain vol. 1. The Illinois Country 1673–1818 by Clarence Walworth Alvord. (1920) online edition; vol. 2.
The Illinois Country (French: Pays des Illinois [pɛ.i dez‿i.ji.nwa]; lit. ' land of the Illinois people '; Spanish: País de los ilinueses), also referred to as Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane [ot.lwi.zjan]; Spanish: Alta Luisiana), was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s that later fell under Spanish and British control before becoming what is now part of the ...
Adams County, positioned in a primarily rural section of Illinois is culturally isolated from Chicago, and therefore more conservative than the state's northeastern corner. Quincy, the county seat, holds a high number of socially conservative Catholics [ 15 ] and likewise is the home to the campus of Quincy University , a private Catholic ...
Hancock County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,620. [1] Its county seat is Carthage, [2] and its largest city is Hamilton. The county is composed of rural towns with many farmers. Hancock County is part of the Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 387 square miles (1,000 km 2), of which 380 square miles (980 km 2) is land and 7.0 square miles (18 km 2) (1.8%) is water. [ 3 ] The Saline County area is mostly rolling hills throughout gradually rising to the Hills of the Shawnee National Forest .