Macoupin County, Illinois
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About Macoupin County
Macoupin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 44,967. The county seat is Carlinville.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Macoupin County at a glance
- County seat
- Carlinville
- Population
- 44,967 (2020)
- Land area
- 868 sq mi
- Founded
- 1829
Largest communities in Macoupin County
- Carlinville Township6,448
- Carlinville County seat5,710
- Staunton Township5,526
- Staunton5,054
- Brighton Township3,896
History of Macoupin County
The region was inhabited by Illinoisan Indians when the first white explorers arrived. Macoupin is an adaptation of the Miami-Illinois term for the American lotus Nelumbo lutea. None of the native Indians remain, although some descendants of the earliest European settlers claim partial ancestry. The first European contact was by French explorers in the seventeenth century, travelling southward down the major rivers. The main European settlement was from the southwest, as people moved inland from the established transportation route of the Mississippi River. Macoupin County was established on January 17, 1829. It was formed out of Greene and Madison Counties and was named after Macoupin Creek, which runs near Carlinville and meanders southwest to the Illinois River. The economy was based on subsistence agriculture, and communication was to the southwest.
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