Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1960. Clinton County is part of the St. Louis Metro Area. As of 2006, the population was 36,633. Its county seat is Carlyle, Illinois.
Clinton County was organized in 1824 out of Washington, Fayette, and Bond Counties. Its name is in honor of the seventh Governor of New York State, DeWitt Clin...
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Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1960. Clinton County is part of the St. Louis Metro Area. As of 2006, the population was 36,633. Its county seat is Carlyle, Illinois.
Clinton County was organized in 1824 out of Washington, Fayette, and Bond Counties. Its name is in honor of the seventh Governor of New York State, DeWitt Clinton, who helped build the Erie Canal.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 503 square miles (1,304 km²), of which 474 square miles (1,228 km²) is land and 29 square miles (76 km²) (5.81%) is water. Eldon Hazlet State Recreation Area and South Shore State Park are in Clinton County.
Clinton County is divided into these fifteen townships:
As of the census of 2000, there were 35,535 people, 12,754 households, and 9,221 families residing in the county. The population density was 75 people per square mile (29/km²)....
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