Pike County, Illinois

administration
Pike County Courthouse
US state :	Illinois
Administrative headquarters :	Pittsfield
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Pike County Courthouse Pittsfield, IL 62363
Foundation :	January 31, 1821
Made up from:	Madison County Bond County Clark County
Area code :	001 217
Demographics
Residents :	16,430 (2010)
Population density :	7.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2199 km²
Water surface :	48 km²
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The Pike County is a county in western US -amerikanischen state of Illinois . At the 2010 census , the county had 16,430 residents and a population density of 7.6 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Pittsfield .

geography

The county is located in western Illinois and is closed to the west by the Mississippi , which also forms the border with Missouri . To the east, Pike County is bounded by the Illinois River . The county has an area of 2,199 square kilometers, of which 48 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Pike County:

Marion County, Missouri	Adams County	Brown County
Ralls County, Missouri		Morgan County , Scott County
Pike County, Missouri	Calhoun County	Greene County

history

Zebulon Pike

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1830	2396	-
1840	11,728	389.5%
1850	18,819	60.5%
1860	27,240	44.7%
1870	30,768	13%
1880	33,751	9.7%
1890	31,000	-8.2%
1900	31,595	1.9%
1910	28,622	-9.4%
1920	26,866	-6.1%
1930	24,357	-9.3%
1940	25,340	4%
1950	22,155	-12.6%
1960	20,552	-7.2%
1970	19,185	-6.7%
1980	18,896	-1.5%
1990	17,577	-7%
2000	17,384	-1.1%
2010	16,430	-5.5%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Pike County was formed on January 31, 1821 from the northern parts of Madison County , Bond County and Clark County . At that time its size made up around 30 percent of Illinois and extended from the border with Missouri to the north on the border with Wisconsin and Lake Michigan, including the then small town of Chicago .

The county was named after Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813), an early explorer of what was then Louisiana , who later fell as brigadier general of the US Army in the 1812 war .

The area of Pike County belonged to Virginia in 1778 , from 1784 to the Northwest Territory and from 1801 to the Indiana Territory. The current county boundaries weren't established until 1825.

It was settled from 1820. The courthouse, which is still in use today, was built in 1894 and is one of the most beautiful in Illinois. Famous people such as Abraham Lincoln , later President of the United States, and Thomas Ford and Richard Yates , two later governors of Illinois, worked as lawyers at the Pike County Court . Governor John Reynolds and later US Senator Stephen A. Douglas also worked here as district judges .

Territorial development

Pike County from its inception in 1821 to 1823
1823 to 1825
1825 until today

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , there were 16,430 people in 6,825 households in Pike County. The population density was 7.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 6825 households there were statistically 2.34 people each.

The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 1.7 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.0 percent of the population.

22.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.3 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 38,191 USD . The per capita income was $ 20,590. 17.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Localities in Pike County

Citys

Town

New Canton

Villages

Unincorporated Communities

structure

Pike County is divided into 24 townships :

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Atlas Township	563	17-02791
Barry Township	1675	17-03974
Chambersburg Township	200	17-12359
Cincinnati Township	31	17-14390
Derry Township	247	17-19577
Detroit Township	312	17-19694
Fairmount Township	188	17-24972
Flint Township	96	17-26415

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Griggsville Township	1430	17-31784
Hadley Township	262	17-32070
Hardin Township	212	17-32863
Kinderhook Township	840	17-39935
Martinsburg Township	419	17-47241
Montezuma Township	540	17-50192
Newburg Township	949	17-52259
New Salem Township	573	17-52818

Township	Population (2010)	FIPS
Levee Township	47	17-43003
Pearl Township	282	17-58356
Perry Township	594	17-59169
Pittsfield Township	4477	17-60235
Pleasant Hill Township	1259	17-60547
Pleasant Vale Township	573	17-60651
Ross Township	70	17-65936
Spring Creek Township	591	17-71617