Lee County (Illinois)

Lee County Courthouse
administration
US state :	Illinois
Administrative headquarters :	Dixon
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Lee County Old Courthouse 112 East Second Street Dixon, IL 61021
Foundation :	February 27, 1839
Made up from:	Ogle County Clark County Bond County
Area code :	001 815
Demographics
Residents :	36,031  (2010)
Population density :	19.2 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	1889 km²
Water surface :	10 km²
map
Website : leecountyil.com

The Lee County is a county in the US -amerikanischen State Illinois . In 2010 , the county had 36,031 residents and a population density of 19.2 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Dixon .

geography

The county is located in northern Illinois and the Rock River flows through it. It has an area of ​​1,889 square kilometers, of which ten square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Lee County:

	Ogle County
Whiteside County		DeKalb County
	Bureau County	LaSalle County

Interstate 39 and Interstate 88 , several highways and state highways run through the county .

history

Richard Henry Lee

Lee County was formed on February 27, 1839 from the southern portion of Ogle County and parts of Bond County and Clark County. It was named after Richard Henry Lee , a US statesman and US Senator from Virginia or after Henry Lee , a cavalry officer of the American Revolutionary War, politician, governor of Virginia and author.

In 1830 John Dixon took the ferry across the Rock River with several other people and covered wagons and settled on the opposite side. This was the hour of birth of the city of Dixon. Dixon's Ferry was an important point as the Rock River could only be crossed at this point for 80 km upstream and downstream. In 1846 John Deere , founder of the later tractor factory of the same name, came to the county and founded a small factory that made steel plows and other agricultural implements. 10 years later he was producing 1,000 plows a year.

Ronald Reagan , who was born in neighboring Whiteside County , attended high school in the county town of Dixon .

Demographic data

Population development
Census	Residents		± in%
1840	2035		-
1850	5292		160%
1860	17.051		222.2%
1870	27,171		59.4%
1880	27,491		1.2%
1890	26,187		-4.7%
1900	29,894		14.2%
1910	27,750		-7.2%
1920	28.004		0.9%
1930	32,329		15.4%
1940	34,604		7%
1950	36,451		5.3%
1960	38,749		6.3%
1970	37,947		-2.1%
1980	36,328		-4.3%
1990	34,392		-5.3%
2000	36,062		4.9%
2010	36,031		-0.1%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

As of the 2010 census , Lee County had 36,031 people in 13,731 households. The population density was 19.2 inhabitants per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.52 people lived in each of the 13,731 households.

The racial the population was composed of 90.9 percent white, 4.8 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.0 percent of the population.

21.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 62.8 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.7 percent were 65 years or older. 47.5 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 48,502  USD . The per capita income was $ 24,440. 9.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Localities in Lee County

Citys

• Amboy
• Dixon

Villages

Ashton Compton Franklin Grove Harmon

Lee 1 Nelson Paw Paw steward

Sublet West Brooklyn

Unincorporated Communities

Binghampton East Paw Paw 1 Eldena handle Kingdom Lee Center

Lost Nation Maytown To the USA North Dixon Palmyra Prairieville

Radley Roxbury Scarboro Shaws Swissville The castle

Twelvemile Corner Van Petten Walton Welland 2 Woodland Shores

¹partly in DeKalb County

²partly in LaSalle County

structure

Lee County is divided into 22 townships :

Township Population (2010) FIPS Alto Township 56500 17-01101 Amboy Township 310800 17-01283 Ashton Township 118500 17-02596 Bradford Township 32400 17-07679 Brooklyn Township 79300 17-08654 Dixon Township 17,99300 17-20175 East Grove Township 25600 17-21865 Franklin Grove Township 141600 17-27695

Township Population (2010) FIPS Hamilton Township 20500 17-32447 Harmon Township 37800 17-32980 Lee Center Township 59300 17-42613 Marion Township 23200 17-46890 May Township 30400 17-47644 Nachusa Township 49300 17-51557 Nelson Township 87400 17-51960 Palmyra Township 290600 17-57316

Township Population (2010) FIPS Reynolds Township 29700 17-63407 South Dixon Township 91800 17-70694 Sublette township 77600 17-73300 Viola Township 35100 17-78110 Willow Creek Township 68800 17-81971 Wyoming Township 137600 17-83674

See also

• List of Entries on the National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Illinois

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GNIS-ID: 424253. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Lee County, IL ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2011 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 16, 2012 
3. ↑ ^{a b} National Association of Counties.Retrieved December 16, 2012
4. ^ US Census Bureau - Census of Population and Housing.Retrieved March 15, 2011
5. ^ Extract from Census.gov.Retrieved February 15, 2011
6. ↑ Missouri Census Data Center - Illinois  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 3, 2014  

Web links

Commons : Lee County, Illinois  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Official website
• Lee County Tourism
• www.city-data.com - Lee County, Illinois

Coordinates: 41 ° 45 ′  N , 89 ° 18 ′  W