Kinkaid Township, Jackson County, Illinois

Jackson County

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The Kinkaid Township is one of 16 townships in Jackson County in the southwest of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, the Kinkaid Township had 486 inhabitants.

Geography

The Kinkaid Township is located about 3 kilometers east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Missouri. The mouth of the Ohio at the intersection of the states of Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky is located around 120 km south.

The Kinkaid Township is located at 37 ° 49 ' N, 89 ° 33' W37.823888888889 - 89.546944444444 and extends over 94.03 km ², spread over 92.28 km ² land and 1.75 km ² water surface.

The Township is located in the central northwestern part of Jackson County and is bordered to the north at the Bradley Township, in the northeast on the Ora Township, on the east by the Levan Township, to the southeast by the Sand Ridge Township, on the south by the Fountain Bluff Township and on the west by the Degognia Township.

Traffic

Thanks to the southwest of the township runs along the Mississippi here the Illinois section of the Great River Road forming Illinois State Route 3 From this branched at its southern end point of the Illinois State Route 151 from. All other roads are County Roads or more subordinate and partly unpaved roadways.

Parallel to the Illinois State Route 3 runs a railway line of the Union Pacific Railroad through the extreme southwestern corner of the township.

With the Southern Illinois Airport is located approximately 30 km east of the Kinkaid Township, a regional airport. The nearest major airport is the Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport ( some 160 km north-west ).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Kinkaid Township 486 people in 191 households. The population density was 5.3 people per square kilometer. In the 191 households lived statistically 2.54 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 99.2 percent White, 0.2 percent (one person) Asians and 0.2 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.4 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 16.0 percent were 65 years or older. 50.4 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 52,083. The per capita income was $ 20,292. 8.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Towns

In addition to scattered settlements exist in Kinkaid Township following ( unincorporated ) settlements:

• Crain
• Dry Hill
• Glenn