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Piatt County, Illinois
Piatt County Illinois Courthouse — CC BY 2.5, Dual Freq · source

About Piatt County

Piatt County is a county in Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 16,673. Its county seat and largest city is Monticello. Piatt County is part of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area.

Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Piatt County at a glance

County seat
Monticello
Population
16,673 (2020)
Land area
440 sq mi
Founded
1841

Largest communities in Piatt County

  1. Monticello Township6,132
  2. Monticello County seat5,941
  3. Sangamon Township2,457
  4. Cerro Gordo Township1,899
  5. Bement Township1,657

History of Piatt County

The first settler was George Haworth, a Quaker, followed by James Martin, Abraham Hanline, Solomon Carter, and William Cordell. Piatt County was formed in 1841 from Macon and DeWitt counties. Two local residents, James A. Piatt and Jesse Warner, were instrumental in forming the county, and it was named for Piatt after he won a coin toss against Warner. Abraham Lincoln practiced law in Piatt County as a lawyer on the Eighth Judicial Circuit. On July 29, 1858, Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met by chance on the road between Monticello and Bement, and that evening conferred at Bryant Cottage in Bement to arrange the Lincoln–Douglas debates. A marker south of Monticello commemorates the roadside meeting, and the cottage is preserved as a state historic site. The first courthouse was begun in 1843 and completed in 1846. It was replaced by the current Piatt County Courthouse in 1904.

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