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Dix is located in northern Jefferson County at (38.440676, -88.942463 Illinois Route 37 is the village's Main Street, leading south 9 miles (14 km) to Mount Vernon, the county seat, and north 13 miles (21 km) to Salem.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 December 2024. Township in Illinois, United States Dix Township Township Location in Ford County Ford County's location in Illinois Coordinates: 40°27′58″N 88°17′29″W / 40.46611°N 88.29139°W / 40.46611; -88.29139 Country United States State Illinois County Ford Established ...
Ford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.According to the 2020 United States Census, it had a population of 13,534. [1] Its county seat is Paxton. [2] Ford County was part of the Champaign–Urbana, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area until 2018, when the Office of Management and Budget removed the county from the area.
The city is also the site of the Lincoln Monument State Memorial, marking the spot where Abraham Lincoln joined the Illinois militia at Fort Dixon in 1832 during the Black Hawk War. The memorial is located on the west side of Dixon's main north-south street, Galena Avenue (U.S. Route 52, also Illinois Route 26), north of the Rock River. [4]
As of 2022, 50% of Illinois's population younger than age 4 were minorities (Note: Children born to white Hispanics or to a sole full or partial minority parent are counted as minorities). [101] The state's most populous ethnic group, non-Hispanic white, has declined from 83.5% in 1970 [102] to 58.5% in 2022. [100]
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John Adams Dix (1798–1879), American Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War; John Ross Dix (1811-after 1863), British writer and poet in Great Britain and America; Margaret Dix (1902–1991), British neuro-otologist; Margaret A. Dix (born 1939), Jersey-born Guatemalan botanist
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