Carmi (Illinois)
White County
17-11293
Carmi is a small town and county seat of White County in the southeast of the U.S. state of Illinois on Little Wabash River. In 2000, Carmi had 5,422 inhabitants.
Geography
Carmi is located at 38 ° 05'18 " north latitude and 88 ° 10'05 " west longitude. The city covers 6.4 square kilometers, spread over 6.1 km ² land and 0.1 km ² water surface.
Carmi is located 14.6 kilometers from the border to Indiana either side of the Little Wabash River, a tributary of the Ohio River tributary Wabash.
In the Carmi Illinois State Route 1 and State Route 14 Illinois come together, the cross in the east of the city together on a bridge over the Little Wabash River. 21.2 km north east of Carmi extends Interstate 64, the shortest route from Louisville, Kentucky to St. Louis in Missouri.
St. Louis is located 221 km west- north-westerly direction, Illinois ' capital Springfield 287 km to the northwest, Indiana's capital Indianapolis 283 km to the northeast, Kentucky's largest city of Louisville 230 km to the east, Tennessee capital of Nashville 308 km to the southeast and Memphis 420 km in southwest.
By Carmi leads in northwest -southeast direction, a railway line that connects the Ohio valley with St. Louis.
History
Between 1809 and 1814, the first white settlers arrived in the area and founded the village, whose name is derived from the biblical figure of Joseph's nephew. The oldest building of Carni, which is now a museum, was built in 1814 and served in 1815 as a foundation of the White County Courthouse.
In Carmi Everton Conger lived, as an officer of the arrest of the murderer of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth undertook.
Demographic data
Data obtained from the census in 2000 5.422 inhabitants of Carmi lived in 2,390 households; among them were 1,477 families. The population density was 854.0 / km ². In place 2,689 residential units were recorded. Among the population was 98.3 % White, 0.5% African American, 0.4% American Indian, 0.2 % Asian and 0.1 % of other ethnic groups; 0.6 % reported belonging to several ethnic groups.
Among the 2,390 households 23.8 % had children under the age of 18; 35.3 % were single-person households. The average household size was 2.16 and the average family size 2.78 persons.
The population was spread out with 20.4% under the age of 18, 8.2 % from 18 to 24, 23.7% 25-44 years, 21.7% from 45 to 64 years and 25.9 % of 65 years or older. The median age was 43 years.
The median household income was $ 25,667, the median family income $ 32,456. The per capita income in Carmi was $ 15,886. Under the poverty line lived 11.7 % of families and 15.1 % of the population.