Alexander County, Illinois, United States

Details for Alexander County

Name

Alexander County

Place Type

County

Located in

Illinois, United States

County Seat

Cairo (Cairo Precinct)

Coordinates

Latitude		37.1833841		37° 11' 00.2" N
Longitude		-89.1834095		89° 11' 00.3" W

Population

10,626

Elevation

107 m

Surrounding Counties

Pulaski NE
Ballard (Kentucky) SE
Carlisle (Kentucky) SE
Mississippi (Missouri) S
Scott (Missouri) W
Cape Girardeau (Missouri) NW
Union N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

424203

Histopolis Place ID

691092800

Updated Dec 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Alexander County

11 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Alexander County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Alexander County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Alexander/ (17 Apr 2010)

Alexander County, Illinois Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Alexander County, Illinois
http://www.interment.net/us/il/alexander.htm (16 May 2010)

Alexander County, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_County,_Illinois (20 Jul 2010)

Alexander County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Alexander County, Illinois IL, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5851 (11 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Alexander County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=5851&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (14 Jan 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Alexander County, Ill. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/AL.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

The USGenWeb Illinois Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/alexander/alexandercem.html (19 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Alexander County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Alexander County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Alexander/cem/ (24 Aug 2009)

Alexander County, Illinois Genealogical Records Information [My Illinois Genealogy]
This page is for the general information on Alexander County, Illinois. Which includes Alexander County, Illinois County Records, Alexander County, Illinois History, Alexander County, Illinois Facts, Alexander County, Illinois Genealogical Address...
http://www.myillinoisgenealogy.com/il-county-alexander.html (19 Aug 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=691 (12 Sep 2009)

EveryNameIndex.com - Every Name Index to History of Alexander, Union and Pulaski Co, IL (1883) [everynameindex.com] Added Dec 3, 2011
Compiled by Cathy L. O'Connor, 2010. Original text by William Perrin, published by O. L. Baskin and Co, 1883, reproduction by Unigraphic, Inc., 1969. This index contains 18,500 entries.
http://www.everynameindex.com/AlexanderCoIL.html (2 Dec 2011)

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Surveys in Alexander County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 15 Townships

The Third Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Alexander County. You can navigate to any of the 15 survey townships that overlap Alexander County using the navigation tool below.

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Precincts of Alexander County

7 Precincts

Cache	Cairo	McClure	Olive Branch
Sandusky	Tamms	Thebes

Cities of Alexander County

1 City, 4 Villages, 23 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Cache	Cairo (city)	Cairo Junction	Clank
Dawleys	Diswood	East Cape Girardeau (village)	Elco
Elmwood Place	Fayville	Future City	Gale
Golden Lily	Hodges Park	Klondike	McClure (village)
Miller City	Olive Branch	Roth	Sandusky
Shasta (historical u.p.)	Tamms (village)	Tankville	Tatumville
Thebes (village)	Unity	Urbandale	Willard

Cemeteries of Alexander County

32 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Bracken	Brown Homestead	Bumgard	Childers
Cummins	Garner	Green Lawn Memorial Gardens	Hargis
Hobbs	Hodges	Honey	Hutchison
Lindsay	McClure	McCrite (Sandusky precinct)	McCrite (Tamms Precinct)
Miller (Sandusky precinct)	Miller (Thebes Precinct)	Miller (Thebes Precinct)	Mount Zion
Mt. Zion (*)	Olive Branch	Palmer	Phillips
Provo	Richwood	Rose Hill	Santa Fe
Schendler	Sims	Thompson	Twente
Uninty

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