Pike County (Illinois)

The Pike County is a county in the west of the U.S. state of Illinois. In the census in 2010, the County had 16,430 inhabitants and a population density of 7.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Pittsfield.

Geography

The County is located in western Illinois and is completed by the Mississippi River in the west, which also forms the border with Missouri. In the east the Pike County on Illinois River is limited. The county has an area of 2199 square kilometers, of which 48 square kilometers are water surface. At the Pike County borders the following Nachbarcountys:

History

The Pike County was formed on January 31, 1821 from the northern parts of Madison County, Bond County and Clark County. Its size made at that time for around 30 percent of Illinois, ranging from the border with Missouri to the north to the border with Wisconsin and Lake Michigan, including the then small city of Chicago.

The County was named after Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813), an early explorer of the former Louisiana Territory, which as a brigadier general of the U.S. Army killed in the war of 1812 later.

The area of Pike County belonged in 1778 to Virginia, from 1784 to the Northwest Territory, and from 1801 to the Indiana Territory. Today's County boundaries were defined until 1825.

Settled it was from 1820. The courthouse used today had been built in 1894 and is one of the finest in Illinois. At the court of Pike County were working as lawyers so famous people like Abraham Lincoln, who later became President of the United States, or Thomas Ford and Richard Yates, two future governors of Illinois. As District Magistrate worked here also Governor John Reynolds and the later U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas.

Territorial Development

1823-1825

1825 to today

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010, lived in Pike County 16,430 people in 6825 households. The population density was 7.6 people per square kilometer. In the 6825 households lived statistically 2.34 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 1.7 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.2 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 1.0 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

22.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 58.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.3 percent were 65 years or older. 50.2 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 38,191. The per capita income was $ 20,590. 17.1 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Pike County

Citys

Barry
Griggsville
Pittsfield

Town

New Canton

Villages

Baylis
Detroit
El Dara
Florence
Hull

Kinderhook
Milton
Nebo
New Salem
Pearl

Perry
Pleasant Hill
Time
Valley City

Unincorporated communities

Atlas
Chambersburg
East Hannibal

Fishhook
Pike
Rockport

Seehorn
Straut
Summerhill

Structure

The Pike County is divided into 24 townships:

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