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Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.
The East North Central states is a region of the United States defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, containing five states: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. [1] These states border the Great Lakes , West North Central , the Southeastern , and Northeastern states ; the Eastern North Central states also share a land border with ...
James Gamble was born at the Graan near Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Ireland, and went to Portora Royal School. [3] His father George Gamble, who was a Methodist minister, decided with his family to escape the depression in Ireland. [4] They emigrated to America in 1819.
Almost 60% of Illinois' minority population, including over 67% of the black population, lives in Cook County, while the county includes around 40% of the state's total population. [102] Cook County, which is home to Chicago , is the only majority-minority county within Illinois, with non-Hispanic whites making up a plurality of 40.4% of the ...
The county has a total area of 693 square miles (1,790 km 2), of which 689 square miles (1,780 km 2) is land and 3.8 square miles (9.8 km 2) (0.6%) is water. [9] Ross County is the second-largest county by land area in Ohio, after Ashtabula County, as well as the fifth-largest by total area.
The average population of Ohio's counties was 133,931; Franklin County was the most populous (1,326,063) and Vinton County was the least (12,474). The average land area is 464 sq mi (1,200 km 2 ). The largest county by area is Ashtabula County at 702.44 sq mi (1,819.3 km 2 ), and its neighbor, Lake County , is the smallest at 228.21 sq mi (591. ...
The county was formed in 1805 from Washington County. Because Ohio's first state university, Ohio University, was established here in 1804, the town and the county are named for the ancient center of learning, Athens, Greece. [4] Athens County comprises the Athens, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.