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As of the 2020 census [3] there were 54,583 people, 21,701 households, and 12,774 families residing in the township. The population density was 11,613.40 inhabitants per square mile (4,483.96/km 2).
Canton Township is one of twenty-six townships in Fulton County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 14,217 and it contained 6,284 housing units. As of the 2020 census, its population was 14,217 and it contained 6,284 housing units.
Canton is located in northeastern Fulton County at Illinois Routes 9 and 78 pass through the downtown together. IL 9 leads east 8 miles (13 km) to Banner near the Illinois River and west 27 miles (43 km) to Bushnell, while IL 78 leads north 10 miles (16 km) to Farmington and south 11 miles (18 km) to Little America in the Illinois River valley.
Fulton County was organized in 1823 from Pike County.It is named for Robert Fulton, developer of the first commercially successful steamboat. [3] American poet and writer Edgar Lee Masters lived in Fulton County during the 1890s; he later became famous for the Spoon River Anthology, written in 1915.
Hines is an unincorporated community in Cook County, Illinois, United States. [2] It is located in Proviso Township next to the villages of Broadview , Maywood , Forest Park , and North Riverside .
Adjacent to Burns, Hines built a company town, incorporated as the City of Hines in 1930. Edward Hines and his wife, Loretta, designed the city around an oval park surrounded by houses with individual features meant to prevent mill-town housing monotony. In the 1990s, long after Hines' death in 1931, the company sold its interest in the mill. [3]
Edward Hines Jr. was killed on the front lines in France in the opening months of American involvement in the war. In his memory, Hines Sr. offered to donate his new property as a potential site of the Chicago facility; it was selected in September 1918. [4] The Field Museum of Natural History was also considered as a location for the facility. [5]
Canton Lake is a 250 acres (100 ha) lake constructed in 1939. [3] The lake has a maximum depth of 35 feet and an average depth of 14 feet. [3] The reservoir holds approximately 3,500 acre feet of water with 7.1 - 13 miles of shoreline. [3] [4] [5] It has no rooted aquatic vegetation. [3] It was the primary potable water source for Canton since ...