Carroll County, Illinois

administration
Carroll County Courthouse in Mount Carroll, listed on NRHP No. 73000692
US state :	Illinois
Administrative headquarters :	Mount Carroll
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Board Chairman 635 S. Clay Street Mt. Carroll, IL 61053
Foundation :	1839
Area code :	001 815
Demographics
Residents :	15,387 (2010)
Population density :	13.4 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1206 km²
Water surface :	56 km²
map

Website : www.gocarrollcounty.com

The Carroll County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Illinois . In 2010 , the county had 15,387 residents and a population density of 13.4 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Mount Carroll .

geography

The county is located in northwest Illinois and has an area of 1,206 square kilometers, of which 56 square kilometers are water. The western county border is also the border with the state of Iowa and is of course determined by the Mississippi River . The following neighboring counties border Carroll County:

Jo Daviess County		Stephenson County
Jackson County, Iowa		Ogle County
Clinton County, Iowa	Whiteside County

history

Charles Carroll

Carroll County was formed in 1838 from former parts of Jo Davies County. It was named after Charles Carroll (1737-1832), a large landowner and politician from Maryland and the only Catholic signatory of the US Declaration of Independence .

The decision to name the county after him was made by Issac Chambers, the first settler in the area. The real settlement only began after Emmert, Halderman & Co. built the first sawmill in the Mount Carroll area and thus created jobs. The felled wood was transported over the adjacent Mississippi. After the company had built the first wooden huts for its employees, the first public buildings were built in 1844. In the same year Joe Miles, the first lawyer, came to the area and opened a trading post and the first post office. In 1869 the first regular school with 5 classrooms and 5 teachers was put into operation.

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	1023	-
1850	4586	348.3%
1860	11,733	155.8%
1870	16,705	42.4%
1880	16,976	1.6%
1890	18,320	7.9%
1900	18,963	3.5%
1910	18,035	-4.9%
1920	19,345	7.3%
1930	18,433	-4.7%
1940	17,987	-2.4%
1950	18,976	5.5%
1960	19,507	2.8%
1970	19,276	-1.2%
1980	18,779	-2.6%
1990	16.805	-10.5%
2000	16,674	-0.8%
2010	15,387	-7.7%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

According to the 2010 census , Carroll County had 15,387 people in 6,969 households. The population density was 13.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.22 people lived in each of the 6,969 households.

The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

20.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.2 percent were 65 years or older. 49.9 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 41,578 USD . The per capita income was $ 24,904. 13.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Carroll County

Citys

Villages

Unincorporated Communities

¹partly in Ogle County

structure

Carroll County is divided into twelve townships :

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Cherry Grove - Shannon Township	1485	17-12996
Elkhorn Grove Township	229	17-23321
Fairhaven Township	910	17-24881
Freedom Township	695	17-27832
Mount Carroll Township	2279	17-50894
Rock Creek-Lima Township	1976	17-64892

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Salem Township	348	17-67210
Savanna Township	3729	17-67834
Washington Township	356	17-79020
Woodland Township	280	17-83076
Wysox Township	1366	17-83700
York Township	1734	17-83908

^Washington ^Woodland ^Freedom ^{Cherry Grove- Shannon} ^{Rock Creek- Lima} ^{Elkhorn Grove} ^Wysox ^Fairhaven ^York ^Savanna ^{Mount Carroll} ^Salem