Mound Station, Illinois
Brown County
17-50790
Mound Station (also called Time Well ) is a village in Brown County in the western part of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2000, Mound Station had 127 inhabitants.
History
The post office Mound Station was founded in 1860. Created in the environment of the station settlement was elevated to municipality ( Village ) in 1901. 1903, the name of the post office in Timewell was changed. This name repressed in the local parlance as increasingly the name of the place, which was never officially changed. Therefore, the non- common name Mounds station is used by the competent authorities.
Geography
Mound station is located at 40 ° 00'27 " north latitude and 90 ° 52'32 " west longitude. The city covers an area of 1.3 km ², which consists exclusively of land area.
Mound Station is 55 km east of the Mississippi River, which forms the border to Missouri.
The southern edge of the village forms the running east -west U.S. Highway 24 on its way from Quincy to Peoria.
Illinois ' capital Springfield is located 116 km east- south-easterly direction, Chicago 407 km to the northeast, the Quad Cities 204 km to the north, Kansas City, 401 km west- south-westerly direction, Missouri Capital Jefferson City 250 km to the southwest and St. Louis 203 km in the south.
Demographic data
In the census of 2000 a population of 127 was determined. These were distributed among 50 households in 36 families. The population density was 94.3 / km ². There were 64 buildings, which corresponded to a housing density of 47.5 / km ².
The population was in 2000 from 99.21 % White and 0.79% half-breeds.
28.3 % were under the age of 18, 5.5 % from 18 to 24, 26.8 % 25-44, 20.5% from 45 to 64 and 18.9 % 65 and older. The average age was 39 years. For every 100 females were statistically 89.6 men in the over 18 -year-olds 97.8.
The average income per household was $ 46,250, the average family income is $ 52,813. Men's income averaged $ 25,694, and for women about $ 17,000. The per capita income amounted to $ 17,413. Around 7.3 % of families and 7.8 % of the total population were below the poverty line income.