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Alexander County

county in Illinois, United States
Administrative Area County Of Illinois Q108851
Alexander County
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Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Illinois
Inception
March 4, 1819[13]
Official website
alexandercounty.illinois.gov[15]
Native label
Alexander County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.190°, -89.340°[14]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Illinois[2]
Shares border with
Union County, Ballard County, Pulaski County, Mississippi County, Scott County, Cape Girardeau County[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+654
Population
5.2k (5.2k–8.2k, n=7)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
More facts +11
Part of
Cape Girardeau, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area[12]
Capital
Cairo[4]
Different from
Alexander County
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Illinois/Alexander County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Alexander County, Illinois
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108284
Named after
William M. Alexander[11]
Number of households
+2252
Per capita income
+20450
Topic has template
Template:Alexander County, Illinois[23]
Water as percent of area
+6.8
🏷️ Also known as
en Alexander County en Alexander County, IL en Alexander County, Illinois ar مقاطعة أليكزاندر ar مقاطعه أليكزاندر، إلينوي el κομητεία Αλεξάντερ es Condado de Alexander es Condado de Alexander (Illinois) fa شهرستان الکساندر fi Alexanderin piirikunta fr comté d'Alexander he מחוז אלכסנדר hu Alexander megye it contea di Alexander ja アレクサンダー郡 ja アレグザンダー郡 ko 알렉산더군 pl Hrabstwo Alexander ro Alexander County ro Comitatul Alexander
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
144258001
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81095827
ArchINFORM location ID
18872
FIPS 6-4 ID
17003
Freebase ID
/m/0nvyx
GADM ID
USA.14.2_1
GNIS Feature ID
424203
GeoNames ID
4232592
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000496
HASC
US.IL.AL
INaturalist place ID
1341
J9U entity ID
987007552865705171
Show all 26 identifiers +14
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.17003
OBO Gazetteer ID
00201340
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791735
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1800890
Our Campaigns container ID
981
Quora topic ID
Alexander-County-IL
Taxonomicon ID
1805281
Topic's main category
Category:Alexander County, Illinois
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039145
UMLS CUI
C3812633
Who's on First ID
102086195
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"AlexanderCounty", "Illinois", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJB4dqvmx6bwwX4CCYGWDq
Yale LUX ID
place/25e8422f-e12a-4945-9137-ce239a29192e
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
117 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 8
Cairo, East Cape Girardeau, Thebes, Tamms, McClure, Olive Branch, Cairo Precinct, Alexander County, Illinois, Unity
Shares border with 6
Ballard County, Scott County, Union County, Pulaski County, Cape Girardeau County, Mississippi County
← Shares border with 6
Ballard County, Scott County, Union County, Pulaski County, Cape Girardeau County, Mississippi County
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from Alexander County, Illinois, Category:Geography of Alexander County, Illinois, Category:Populated places in Alexander County, Illinois
Capital 1
Cairo
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Alexander County
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Illinois
Topic has template 1
Template:Alexander County, Illinois
Topic's main category 1
Category:Alexander County, Illinois
← Capital of 1
Cairo
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Alexander County, Illinois
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Illinois
← Different from 1
Alexander County
← FactGrid item ID 1
Capestang
← Template has topic 1
Template:Alexander County, Illinois
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Summary

Alexander County is a county of Illinois[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Alexander County covers an area of {'amount': '+654'}[24].

Related Entities

Capestang Illinois United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tabular data series → Data:US presidential elections by county/Alexander County, I
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Alexander County, Illinois.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States preside"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Shares border with → Union County, Ballard County, Pulaski County +1
    Area → 654
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Illinois
    Topic's main category → Category:Alexander County, Illinois
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #31546"
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