Randolph County (Illinois)

The Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, the County had 33,476 inhabitants and a population density of 22.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. The administrative headquarters ( County Seat) is Chester.

Geography

The County is located in southwestern Illinois to the mouth of the Kaskaskia River in the Mississippi River, which forms the border with Missouri. It has an area of ​​1547 square kilometers, of which 49 square kilometers are water surface. At the Randolph County borders the following Nachbarcountys:

History

The Randolph County was founded on October 5, 1795 from a part of the St. Clair County in Illinois - formed territory, 23 years before the founding of the state. It was named a former Governor of Virginia (1786-1788) and the USA (1794-1795) later foreign minister after Edmund Randolph ( 1753-1813 ).

The history of Randolph County begins with the indigenous people of different tribe who settled in the area. For the first time, the area was explored by Europeans in 1673 when the Mississippi River came down Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette of Canada. The next Europeans may have been La Salle, who came via the southern route and began his expedition in 1682. He called the initial area in accordance with the French king Louisiana and took it to France in possession. Maybe he was also the founder of Kaskaskia and Cahokia. Proven but he has founded the Fort St. Louis. This formed the input for the French in this area.

The next conquerors was the Frenchman Phillip Renault. He founded in 1719 St. Phillips in the southwest of present-day Monroe County. He began to let invest mines in search of gold and silver. He has this led to an increase in the researched area, but found nothing. Fort Chartres was built in 1720 by a Boisbriant and 1721 Kaskaskia was a trading post.

1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau between the French and the British was signed, which were all French possessions east of the Mississippi to the British. As a result, the hitherto sparsely populated country emptied again, as many Frenchmen did not want to live in the now British managed area and slowly attracted British settlers in this area. The American settlers began with the settlement after 1778. Until 1809 the area as most of the present-day Illinois was under different rule before it became a free territory Illinois.

Territorial Development

1812-1813

1813-1816

1816-1827

1827 to today

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Randolph County 33,476 people in 12,093 households. The population density was 22.3 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 12,093 households lived statistically 2.33 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 87.6 percent white, 9.7 percent African American, 0.2 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity were 2.6 percent of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

20.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 63.4 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.8 percent were 65 years or older. 45.9 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was $ 43,160. The per capita income was $ 19,938. 13.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Randolph County

Citys

  • Chester
  • Red Bud
  • Sparta

Villages

  • Baldwin
  • Coulterville
  • Ellis Grove
  • Evansville
  • Kaskaskia
  • Percy
  • Prairie du Rocher
  • Rockwood
  • Ruma
  • Steeleville
  • Tilden

Unincorporated communities

  • Blair
  • Bremen
  • Collins
  • Danley
  • Dozaville
  • Eden
  • Fort Gage
  • Glenn
  • Grigg
  • Houston
  • Kellogg
  • Leander Ville
  • Marigold
  • Menard
  • Modoc
  • New Palestine
  • Prairie
  • Preston
  • Reily Lake
  • Roots
  • Shoe Line
  • Shiloh Hill
  • Walsh
  • Welge
  • Wine Hill

Structure

The Randolph County is divided into 20 districts ( precincts ):

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