Durham is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in southern Lewis County,

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, United States. It is located on Route 6, approximately ten miles southwest of La Grange. Durham is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. A post office called Durham has been in operation since 1872. The community has the name of a railroad employee.

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