St. Clair County, Illinois (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetterr of the United States... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 318.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....
SAINT CLAIR COUNTY, situated on the southwesterly boundary of Illinois, with Mississippi river on the west, and traversed by the Kaskaskia.  Area, 649 square miles.  Face of the country, even; soil, generally fertile.  Seat of justice, Bellville.  Pop. in 1820, 5,253; in 1830, 7,078; in 1840, 13,631; in 1850, 20,181.
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