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Coles County, Illinois
Coles County, IL, USA courthouse — CC BY-SA 4.0, Bubba73 (Jud McCranie) · source

About Coles County

Coles County is a county in Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,863. Its county seat is Charleston, which is also the home of Eastern Illinois University.

Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Coles County at a glance

County seat
Charleston
Population
46,863 (2020)
Land area
510 sq mi
Founded
1830

Largest communities in Coles County

  1. Charleston Township19,313
  2. Charleston County seat17,286
  3. Mattoon16,870
  4. Mattoon Township14,668
  5. Lafayette Township4,765

History of Coles County

Coles County was organized on December 25, 1830, from Clark and Edgar counties. It was named after Edward Coles, the second governor of Illinois, from 1822 to 1826. The majority of the American settlers who founded Coles County were either from the six New England states, or were born in upstate New York to parents who had moved to that region from New England shortly after the American Revolution. They were part of a wave of farmers who headed west into the frontier of the Northwest Territory during the early 1800s. The completion of the Erie Canal led to an increase in such migrants heading west. When these settlers originally reached what is today Coles County, they found dense virgin forest and prairie. The New England settlers laid out farms, constructed roads, erected government buildings and established post routes.

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