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Jackson County, Illinois, United States

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Details for Jackson County

NameJackson County
Place TypeCounty
Located in
County SeatMurphysboro (Murphysboro Township)
Coordinates
Latitude 37.7667175 37° 46' 00.2" N
Longitude -89.3500895 89° 21' 00.3" W
Population61,067
Elevation125 m
Surrounding CountiesFranklin NE
Williamson E
Union S
Cape Girardeau (Missouri) SW
Perry (Missouri) W
Randolph NW
Perry N
USGS GNIS FeatureID424240
Histopolis Place ID124827897
Updated Nov 29, 2011
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Histopolis Place-of-the-Day

Jackson County was featured as the Histopolis Place-of-the-Day on Friday, August 19, 2011.

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Genealogy Resources for Jackson County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.
Jackson County, Illinois Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Jackson County, Illinois
http://www.interment.net/us/il/jackson.htm (16 May 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Jackson County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=6282&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (19 Jan 2008)

The USGenWeb Illinois Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/jackson/jacksoncem.html (7 Dec 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Jackson 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/JA.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Jackson County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Jackson County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Jackson/ (27 Dec 2009)

Jackson County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Jackson 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=6282 (12 Nov 2008)

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=728 (11 Sep 2009)

Jackson County, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_County,_Illinois (17 Jul 2010)

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Surveys in Jackson County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 23 Townships

The Third Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Jackson County. You can navigate to any of the 23 survey townships that overlap Jackson County using the navigation tool below.


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