Gazetteer/Almanac
Headnote
PIKE COUNTY, situated on the southwesterly boundary of Illinois, with Mississippi river on the southwest and the Illinois on the east. Area, 800 square miles. Seat of justice, Pittsfield. Pop. in 1830, 2,396; in 1840, 11,728; in 1850, 9,095. (Fanning's, 1853)