Stonefort, Illinois

Saline County Williamson County

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Stone Fort is a municipality ( with a status of "Village" ) in Saline and Williamson County in the south of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010, Stone Fort had 297 inhabitants.

Geography

Stone Fort is located on the northwestern edge of the Shawnee National Forest at 37 ° 36'51 " north latitude and 88 ° 42'29 " west longitude and extending 3.78 km ². The municipal area extends over the Stone Fort Township of Saline County and the Stone Fort Precinct of Williamson County.

The Saline River flows approximately one kilometer north past Sonefort.

Towns nearby Stone Fort are Carrier Mills (10,7 km northeast), Mitchellsville (21,7 km east ), McCormick ( 10.5 km SSE ), New Burnside (6.8 km to the southwest ), Creal Springs (12,1 km west ) and Crab Orchard ( 18.6 km north west ).

The nearest large towns are St. Louis, Missouri (229 km north-west ), Louisville, Kentucky ( 306 km east-northeast ), Evansville, Indiana ( 86.9 km to the east), Tennessee's capital Nashville (298 km southeast) and Memphis ( 364 km south-southwest ).

Traffic

In northeast-southwest direction of the U.S. Highway 45 runs through the municipality of Stone Fort. All other roads are subordinate, partly unpaved roadways and within local roads.

Thanks to the east of Stone Fort runs a railway line of the former Illinois Central Railroad, which today is part of the route network of the Canadian National Railway.

The nearest airports are is 40.4 kilometers north-west located Williamson County Regional Airport and the Harrisburg - Raleigh Airport. The nearest major airports are 247 km north-west location Lambert -Saint Louis International Airport un the Nashville International Airport (306 km south-east ).

Demographic data

According to the census in 2010 lived in Stonefort 297 people in 120 households. The population density was 78.6 inhabitants per square kilometer. In the 120 households lived statistically 2.48 per person.

The racial the population was composed of 98.0 percent white and 1.3 percent ( four people) African Americans; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.0 percent ( six persons ) of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

25.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.5 percent were 65 years or older. 55.9 percent of the population was female.

The median annual income for a household was $ 28,125. The per capita income was $ 14,442. 15.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.