Carroll County (Illinois)
The Carroll County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, the County had 15,387 inhabitants and a population density of 13.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Mount Carroll.
Geography
The County is located in northwestern Illinois and has an area of 1,206 square kilometers, of which 56 square kilometers are water surface. The western Countygrenze is also simultaneously the boundary to the state of Iowa and is of course determined by the Mississippi River. At the Carroll County borders the following Nachbarcountys:
History
The Carroll County was formed in 1838 from parts of the former Jo Davies County. It was named after Charles Carroll (1737-1832), a Großbrundbesitzer and politician from Maryland and the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The decision to name the county after him, met Issac Chambers, the first settler in the area. The real settlement began only after the Emmert, Halderman & Co. built the first sawmill in the area of Mount Carroll and thus created jobs. The harvested wood was transported to the adjacent Mississippi. After the first log cabins were built by the company for employees, 1844, the first public buildings were built. In the same year also came Joe Miles, the first lawyer in the area and opened a trading post, and the first post office. 1869, the first regular school was taken with 5 classrooms and five teachers in service.
Demographic data
According to the census in 2010 lived in Carroll County 15,387 people in 6,969 households. The population density was 13.4 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 6,969 households lived statistically 2.22 per person.
The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 0.8 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.1 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.8 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
20.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 21.2 percent were 65 years or older. 49.9 percent of the population was female.
The median income for a household was $ 41,578. The per capita income was $ 24,904. 13.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
Places in Carroll County
Citys
- Lanark
- Mount Carroll
- Savanna
Villages
- Chadwick
- Milledgeville
- Shannon
- Thomson
Unincorporated communities
- Argo Fay
- Arnold
- Ashdale Junction
- Ayers
- Blackhawk
- Burke
- Center Hill
- Daggett
- Ebner
- Elkhorn Grove
- Fairhaven
- Fay
- Georgetown
- Hazelhurst1
- Hickory Grove
- Hitt
- Ideal
- Kittredge
- Lake Carroll
- Marcus
- Polsgrove
- South Elkhorn
- Brave
- Ornamental Cors
Structure
The Carroll County is divided into twelve townships: