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Pulaski County, Illinois

Pulaski County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Mound City
Year Organized: 1843
Square Miles: 201
Court House:

P.O. Box 118
Mound City, IL 62963-0118

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Count Casimir Pulaski, Polish hero who was killed in the attack on Savannah, GA, in 1779.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

Pulaski County was created on March 3, 1843 (Laws, 1843, p. 99.) and was formed from Alexander and Johnson Counties. Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in: Johnson County (1812–1843), Alexander County (1819–1843), Union County (1818–1819), Randolph County (1795–1812) and St. Clair County (1790–1795).

The County was named for Count Kazimierz Pulaski, a Polish exile who espoused the cause of the Colonies during the Revolution and was killed at the attack on Savannah in 1779. The County Seat is Mound City. Prior County Seats was Caledonia (1843–1865) and Mound City (1865–Present).

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 203 square miles (527 kmē), of which, 201 square miles (520 kmē) of it is land and 3 square miles (7 kmē) of it (1.25%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

  • Northeast: Johnson County
  • East: Massac County
  • Southeast: Ballard County, Ky.
  • Southwest: Mississippi County, Mo.
  • West: Alexander County
  • Northwest: Union County

Cities and Towns:

- Karnak village Incorporated Area
- Mound City (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Mounds city Incorporated Area
- New Grand Chain village Incorporated Area
- Olmsted village Incorporated Area
- Pulaski village Incorporated Area
- Ullin village Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."
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