Bond County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,725. Its county seat is Greenville.
Bond County is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Bond County was formed in 1817 out of Madison County. It was named for Shadrach Bond, who was then the delegate from the Illinois Territory to the United States Congress, and who thereupon became the first governor of Illinois, serving from 1818 to 1822.
The county's primary city, Greenville, had a post office from 1819 and was incorporated as a town in 1855 and as a city in 1872. While Illinois was not a slave state, it was adjacent to slave states, Missouri and Kentucky, and did allow the continued use of "indentured servants," a process many slaveowners used to keep their slaves even in a free state.
The Greenville Public Library was established as a Carnegie library and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Hogue Hall at Greenville College, demolished in 2008, also formerly appeared on the National Register.
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File:Bond County 1817.png|Bond County at the time of its creation in 1817, extending north to Lake Superior.
File:Bond County 1821.png|Bond County between 1821 and 1824
File:Bond County 1824.png|Bond between 1824 and 1843
File:Bond County Illinois 1843.png|Bond county was enlarged slightly to its current size in 1843.
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Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.6%) is water.
Adjacent counties
- Montgomery County – north
- Fayette County – east
- Clinton County – south
- Madison County – west
Major highways
- 25px Interstate 70
- 25px U.S. Route 40
- 25px Illinois Route 127
- 25px Illinois Route 140
- 25px Illinois Route 143
Climate and weather
In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Greenville have ranged from a low of in January to a high of in July, although a record low of was recorded in February 1905 and a record high of was recorded in July 1954. Average monthly precipitation ranged from in February to in May.
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The median age was 41.7 years. 18.2% of residents were under the age of 18 and 18.9% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 118.5 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 121.9 males age 18 and over.
40.4% of residents lived in urban areas, while 59.6% lived in rural areas.
There were 6,164 households in the county, of which 26.5% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 49.9% were married-couple households, 18.7% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 24.6% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 29.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 14.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The most commonly reported ancestries were German (28.9%), Irish (13.4%), English (9.3%), and American (9.2%).
Of the 6,359 households, 25.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.8% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 36.6% were non-families. 29.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.32 and the average family size was 2.87.
!Pop 1990
!Pop 2000
!Pop 2010
!style="background-color: #ffffb3;" | Pop 2020
!% 1980
!% 1990
!% 2000
!% 2010
!style="background-color: #ffffb3;" |% 2020
|-
|White alone (NH)
|15,705
|14,432
|15,841
|15,797
|style='background: #ffffe6; |14,264
|96.80%
|96.27%
|89.84%
|88.91%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |85.29%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|398
|419
|1,297
|1,061
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,073
|2.45%
|2.80%
|7.36%
|5.97%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |6.42%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|21
|34
|73
|76
|style='background: #ffffe6; |52
|0.13%
|0.23%
|0.41%
|0.43%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.31%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|35
|14
|44
|67
|style='background: #ffffe6; |94
|0.22%
|0.09%
|0.25%
|0.38%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.56%
|-
|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|x
|x
|8
|3
|style='background: #ffffe6; |11
|x
|x
|0.05%
|0.02%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.07%
|-
|Other race alone (NH)
|6
|12
|11
|7
|style='background: #ffffe6; |93
|0.04%
|0.08%
|0.06%
|0.04%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.56%
|-
|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|x
|x
|106
|210
|style='background: #ffffe6; |534
|x
|x
|0.60%
|1.18%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.19%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|59
|80
|253
|547
|style='background: #ffffe6; |604
|0.36%
|0.53%
|1.43%
|3.08%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.61%
|-
|Total
|16,224
|14,991
|17,633
|17,768
|style='background: #ffffe6; |16,725
|100.00%
|100.00%
|100.00%
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
|}
Education
- Bond County Community Unit School District 2
- Carlyle Community Unit School District 1
- Highland Community Unit School District 5
- Hillsboro Community Unit School District 3
- Mulberry Grove Community Unit School District 1
- Vandalia Community Unit School District 203
- Greenville University
Communities
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! Community<br />
! Community<br />type
! Population
! Total<br />Area
! Water<br />Area
! Land<br />Area
! Pop.<br />Density
|-
|Donnellson || village || 153 || 0.37 || 0.00 || 0.37 || 413.51 ||
|-
|Greenville || city || 7,083 || 6.31 || 0.00 || 6.31 || 1,122.68 ||
|-
|Keyesport || village || 406 || 0.74 || 0.02 || 0.72 || 563.89 ||
|-
|Mulberry Grove || village || 520 || 1.02 || 0.01 || 1.02 || 511.81 ||
|-
|Old Ripley || village || 82 || 0.15 || 0.00 || 0.15 || 532.47 ||
|-
|Panama || village || 337 || 0.37 || 0.00 || 0.36 || 923.29 ||
|-
|Pierron || village || 459 || 0.73 || 0.00 || 0.73 || 630 ||
|-
|Pocahontas || village || 697 || 0.80 || 0.02 || 0.78 || 890.17 ||
|-
|Smithboro || village || 154 || 0.93 || 0.00 || 0.93 || 165.24 ||
|-
|Sorento || village || 429 || 0.80 || 0.00 || 0.80 || 537.59 ||
|-
|Bond County || county || 16,725 || 383 || 2.5 || 380 || 44 ||
|}
Townships
Bond County is divided into these nine townships:
- Burgess
- Central
- Lagrange
- Mills
- Mulberry Grove
- Old Ripley
- Pleasant Mound
- Shoal Creek
- Tamalco
Unincorporated communities
- Ayers
- Beaver Creek
- Bunje
- Dudleyville
- Durley
- Gilmore
- Hamburg
- Hookdale
- Keyesport Landing
- Paisley Corners
- Pleasant Mound
- Reno
- Stubblefield
- Tamalco
- Woburn
Politics
Bond is a strongly Republican county. Only two Democrats have gained an absolute majority of the county's vote since at least 1880 – Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to win the county, in 1996, though local Senator Barack Obama came within 100-plus votes in 2008.
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See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Bond County, Illinois
References
External links
- County Website
- United States Census Bureau 2007 TIGER/Line Shapefiles
- United States Board on Geographic Names (GNIS)
- United States National Atlas