Shelbyville (Illinois)
Shelby County
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Shelbyville is a small town ( with a status of "City" ) and the administrative seat of Shelby County in the center of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010 Shelbyville had 4700 inhabitants.
Geography
Shelbyville is located on the Kaskaskia River at 39 ° 24'23 " north latitude and 88 ° 47'24 " west longitude and extending over 9.58 km ². The city is spread on the Shelbyville Township and the Rose Township.
To the east of the town there is a dam through which the Kaskaskia River is dammed at Lake Shelbyville.
Neighbouring places of Shelbyville are Duvall (11 km north), Middlesworth (7.1 km east), Clarksburg (12,2 km southeast) and Tower Hill (16,3 km west ).
The nearest large towns are Illinois ' capital Springfield ( 95.4 km north west ), Indiana's capital Indianapolis (249 km east), Louisville, Kentucky (351 km south-east ), Evansville, Indiana (246 km south-southeast ) and St. Louis in Missouri ( 185 km south-west ).
Traffic
In Shelbyville extending in the east-west direction Illinois State Route 16 crosses the leading from North to South Illinois State Route 128 All other roads are within city roads.
By Shelbyville runs in a north -south railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad.
The Decatur Airport ( 54.3 km north ) is the nearest regional airport; the nearest major airport is Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport (197 km southwest).
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Shelbyville 4700 people in 2093 households. The population density was 490.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 2093 households lived statistically 2.17 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 98.3 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and 0.4 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.5 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.3 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.7 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 23.1 percent were 65 years or older. 52.2 percent of the population was female.
The median annual income for a household was $ 37,636. The per capita income was $ 22,020. 14.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Memorable people
- Josephine Cochrane (1839-1913), inventor of the first dishwasher - lived the longest of her life in Shelbyville
- H. Benne Henton (1877-1938), saxophonist - born in Shelbyville
- Jesse M. Donaldson (1885-1970), U.S. Postmaster General (1947-1953) - born in Shelbyville