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Edgar County, Illinois Edgar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 16,866. Its county seat is Paris. History Edgar County was formed out of Clark County in 1823. It was named for John Edgar ...

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. As of the 2010 census, its population was 273 and it contained 125 housing units.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, the township has a total area of , of which (or 99.97%) is land and (or 0.03%) is water.

Unincorporated towns

* Scottland *

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Extinct towns

* Illiana * Quaker

Cemeteries

* Wesley Chapel Cemetery.

Major highways

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US Route 150 U.S. Route 150 (US 150) is a 571-mile (919 km) long northwest-southeast United States highway, signed as east–west. It runs from U.S. Route 6 outside of Moline, Illinois to U.S. Route 25 in Mount Vernon, Kentucky. Route description ...

Illinois Route 1 Illinois Route 1 (IL 1) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Illinois. Running parallel to the Indiana border, the highway starts at the free ferry crossing to Kentucky at Cave-in-Rock on the Ohio River and runs north to the south sid ...

Airports and landing strips

* Rowe Airport''Rowe Airport, Chrisman, Edgar County IL'' Google Maps (accessed 30 December 2018)
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Demographics

School districts

* Edgar County Community Unit District 6 * Georgetown-Ridge Farm Consolidated Unit School District 4

Political districts

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* State House District 109 * State Senate District 55

References

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US Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles

US National Atlas

External links

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