Shawneetown, Illinois

Gallatin County

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Shawneetown is a small town and the county seat of Gallatin County in the south of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2000, Shawneetown had 1410 inhabitants. The city is the county seat since 1937, after the Old Shawneetown today called place had been flooded.

Geography

Shawneetown is located at 37 ° 42'53 " north latitude and 88 ° 11'00 " west longitude. The city stretches over 3.0 km ², which consist almost exclusively of land area.

The city is located about 5 km north- west of Old Shawneetown on the Ohio River, which forms the border with the neighboring state of Kentucky. The intersection of the three states of Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana is located at the mouth of the Wabash River into the Ohio about 23 km north-east of Shawneetown.

By Shawneetown runs north- west: the Illinois State Route 13, which leads crosses in Old Shawneetown Shawneetown Bridge over the Ohio and Kentucky.

The nearest large towns are the 80.1 km east location Evansville in Indiana as well as the further the Ohio upstream Louisville (263 miles) in Kentucky, the 255 km southeast location, Nashville, Tennessee, and 234 km in a north-westerly direction away St. Louis in Missouri. Illinois ' capital Springfield is located 317 km to the northwest.

Demographic data

In the census of 2000 a population of 1,410 was determined. These were distributed among 632 households in 389 families. The population density was 462.8 / km ². There were 675 residential buildings, which corresponded to a housing density of 221.6 / km ².

The population consisted in 2000 of 96.2 % White, 0.5 % African American, 2.3% American Indians, and 0.4 % other. 0.6 % said to be descended from at least two of these groups. 1.7% of the population were Hispanics who belonged to the various of the aforementioned groups.

21.7% were under the age of 18, 9.8 % from 18 to 24, 23.3% 25-44, 25.5% from 45 to 64 and 19.8 % 65 and older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females were statistically 88.0 men in the over 18 -year-olds 82.5.

The median income per household was $ 20,789, the median family income $ 33,500. The median income for men was $ 32,368, and for women about $ 20,208. The per capita income amounted to $ 17,834. Around 20.8 % of families and 27.8 % of the total population were income below the poverty line.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Frank C. Millspaugh, politicians
• William Wallace Wilshire, politicians