Hancock County, Illinois

administration
Hancock County Courthouse
US state :	Illinois
Administrative headquarters :	Carthage
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 500 Main Street Carthage, IL 62321-0000
Foundation :	January 13, 1825
Made up from:	Pike County
Area code :	001 217
Demographics
Residents :	19,104 (2010)
Population density :	9.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2110 km²
Water surface :	52 km²
map

Website : www.hancockcountycourthouse.org

The Hancock County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Illinois . In 2010 , the county had 19,104 residents and a population density of 9.3 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Carthage .

geography

The county is located in western Illinois on the Mississippi River , which forms the border with the neighboring states of Iowa and Missouri . Hancock County covers an area of 2,110 square kilometers, of which 52 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following neighboring counties:

Lee County, Iowa		Henderson County
Clark County, Missouri		McDonough County
Lewis County, Missouri	Adams County	Schuyler County

history

J. Hancock

Hancock County was formed in the Illinois Territory on January 13, 1825, adjacent to Pike County, and named after John Hancock , a member of Congress and governor of Massachusetts .

The first courthouse was built in Montebello , on the banks of the Mississippi River . In 1833 the administrative headquarters were moved to Carthage. The courthouse, which still exists today, was built in 1908. Mormons also settled in Nauvoo around 1839 . From 1839 to 1846, Nauvoo was the largest city in Illinois.

In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith were murdered by an angry mob in Carthage Prison. The Nauvoo Exodus began in early 1846 when the Mormons moved to their new headquarters in Utah .

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1840	483	-
1850	9946	1,959.2%
1860	14,652	47.3%
1870	29.001	97.9%
1880	35,035	20.8%
1890	31,907	-8.9%
1900	32,215	1 %
1910	30,638	-4.9%
1920	28,523	-6.9%
1930	26,420	-7.4%
1940	26,297	-0.5%
1950	25,790	-1.9%
1960	24,574	-4.7%
1970	23,645	-3.8%
1980	23,877	1 %
1990	21,373	-10.5%
2000	20.121	-5.9%
2010	19,104	-5.1%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

As of the 2010 census , there were 19,104 people in 8,024 households in Hancock County. The population density was 9.3 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.31 people lived in the 8,024 households.

The racial the population was composed of 98.0 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.0 percent of the population.

22.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 68.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.8 percent were 65 years or older. 50.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 43,774 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,098. 11.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Localities in Hancock County

Citys

Town

Bentley

Villages

Unincorporated Communities

^{1 - partly in Henderson County

2 - partly in Adams County}

structure

Hancock County is divided into 25 townships :

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Appanoose Township	435	17-01621
Augusta Township	795	17-02999
Bear Creek Township	345	17-04338
Carthage Township	3052	17-11540
Chili Township	657	17-14104
Dallas City Township	996	17-18433
Durham Township	278	17-21306
Fountain Green Township	288	17-27325
Hancock Township	255	17-32629
Harmony Township	326	17-32993
La Harpe Township	1473	17-40845
Montebello Township	3579	17-50140
Nauvoo Township	1156	17-51804

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Pilot Grove Township	280	17-59845
Pontoosuc Township	413	17-61093
Prairie Township	380	17-61496
Rock Creek Township	350	17-64876
Rocky Run Township	158	17-65234
St. Albans Township	377	17-66612
St. Mary Township	640	17-67054
Sonora Township	494	17-70499
Walker Township	333	17-78422
Warsaw Township	1607	17-78955
Wilcox Township	189	17-81607
Wythe Township	248	17-83713