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)
Place Unit Type
County
Containing Unit
Illinois

Pike County, Illinois (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
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 Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 291.
Name Type
Pittsfield, IL City or Town
Date Title
Ozias Mather Hatch to Abraham Lincoln, August 17, 1861
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