Jefferson County, Illinois, United States

Details for Jefferson County

Name

Jefferson County

Place Type

County

Located in

Illinois, United States

County Seat

Mount Vernon (Mount Vernon Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		38.3000495		38° 18' 00.2" N
Longitude		-88.9333992		88° 56' 00.2" W

Population

37,020

Elevation

159 m

Surrounding Counties

Marion N
Wayne E
Hamilton SE
Franklin S
Perry SW
Washington W
Clinton NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

424242

Histopolis Place ID

879159155

Updated Sep 3, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Jefferson County

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

The USGenWeb Illinois Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/jefferson/jeffersoncem.html (21 Sep 2009)

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Jefferson County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Jefferson County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Jefferson/ (18 Dec 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Jefferson County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=6285&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (19 Jan 2008)

Jefferson County, Illinois IL, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Jefferson 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=6285 (12 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Jefferson 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/JF.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Jefferson County, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Illinois (16 Jul 2010)

Illinois Gravestone Photo Project - Cemetery Index [Illinois Gravestone Photos]
Research your Illinois ancestors and family history by searching our online database of Illinois gravestone photos. Locate Illinois gravestone images of your descendants and discover your Illinois roots.
http://illinoisgravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=41 (13 Apr 2011)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Jefferson County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Illinois > Jefferson County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/IL/Jefferson/cem/ (28 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=730 (12 Sep 2009)

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Surveys in Jefferson County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 16 Townships

The Third Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Jefferson County. You can navigate to any of the 16 survey townships that overlap Jefferson County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Jefferson County

16 Townships

Bald Hill	Blissville	Casner	Dodds
Elk Prairie	Farrington	Field	Grand Prairie
McClellan	Moores Prairie	Mount Vernon	Pendleton
Rome	Shiloh	Spring Garden	Webber

Cities of Jefferson County

3 Cities, 7 Villages, 31 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Bakerville	Belle Rive (village)	Bluford (village)	Bonnie (village)
Boyd	Camp Ground	Centralia (city)	Cravat
Dareville	Divide	Dix (village)	Drivers
Emerson City	Fitzgerrell (historical u.p.)	Harmony	Harris Grove (historical u.p.)
Horse Prairie (historical u.p.)	Idlewood	Ina (village)	Jefferson City
Lynchburg (historical u.p.)	Marcoe	Markham City	Marlow
Morganville	Mount Vernon (city)	Nason (city)	Opdyke
Pigeon (historical u.p.)	Roaches	Scheller	Shields
Shirley	Spring Garden	Stratton	Summersville
Texico	Waltonville (village)	Webster Hill Estates	Williamsburg
Woodlawn (village)

Cemeteries of Jefferson County

103 Cemeteries, 6 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Abner	Antioch	Arnold	Atkinson
Bald Hill	Bethel Memorial	Black	Black Oak Ridge
Boyd	Boyd Farm	Carroll	Clampet
Clark	Cub Prairie	Dryden	East Hickory Hill
East Salem	Ebenezer	Etheridge	Falley
Fitzgerrell	Flint	Four Graves	Fouts
Gaston	Gilbert	Gilead (Grand Prairie Township)	Gilead (Rome Township)
Greenwalt	Grothoff	Hall	Hams Grove
Harmony	Hickey	Hicory Hill	Hope
Hopewell	Jennings Farm	Jordan Chapel	Kirk
Knob Prairie	Knowles	Laird	Little Grove
Locust Grove	Lowery	Lowry Hill	Mason
McConnaughhay	McKinney	Meddows	Memorial Garden
Mifflin	Minson	Mount Catherine	Mount Olive
Mount Zion (Blissville Township)	Mount Zion (Farrington Township)	Mt. Catherine (*)	Mt. Olive (*)
Mt. Zion (* Blissville Township)	Mt. Zion (* Farrington Township)	New Hope	New Shiloh
Newton Farm	Oak Dale	Oak Grove	Oakwood
Oddfellows	Old Baptist	Old Orchard	Old Panther Fork
Old Shiloh	Old Union	Opdyke	Panther Fork
Piskey	Pleasant Grove	Pleasant Hill	Quinn
Randolph	Rentchler	Reynolds	Richardson Farm
Rightnower	Round Knob	Saint Barbara	Saint Marys
Shelton (Moores Prairie Township)	Shelton (Pendleton Township)	Slade	Smith (Pendleton Township)
Smith (Spring Garden Township)	South Hickory Hill	St. Barbara (*)	St. Marys (*)
Stephens	Sugar Camp	Sunset Memorial	Taylor
Union Chapel	Wall Farm	Ward	Warren
Wells Chapel	West Salem	Wilbanks	Williams
Wolf Prairie

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