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Alexander County, Illinois

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56newspaper titles

12digitized titles

8historic places

1800earliest paper

1819formed

5,240pop. 2020

65cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 56 newspaper titles published in Alexander County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1800. 12 of these titles have digitized pages on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1969. Most listings are in or near Cairo, Tamms, Willard.

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Newspapers published in Alexander

Library of Congress

56 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
Camp Register	Cairo, Fort Defiance	1800–1899
Golden Rule Pilot	New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis	1800–1999
The Cairo Delta	Cairo	1848–1849
The Cairo Sun	Cairo	1851–1899
The Cairo City Times	Cairo	1854–1855
Cairo Weekly Times and Delta	Cairo	1855–1899
The Cairo Weekly Delta	Cairo	1855–1855
Cairo City Gazette	Cairo	1857–1869
Cairo Journal	Cairo	1857–1859
Cairo Semi-Weekly Times and Delta	Cairo	1859–1899
Cairo Morning News	Cairo	1860–1999
Cairo Daily Democrat	Cairo	1863–1866
Cairo Weekly Democrat	Cairo	1863–1869
The Daily Morning News	Cairo	1863–1899
Cairo Monday Democrat	Cairo	1864–1865
Cairo Weekly News	Cairo	1864–1899
Cairo Evening Times Digitized	Cairo	1865–1866
Cairo Evening Times Digitized	Cairo	1865–?
Cairo Tri-Weekly Times	Cairo	1866–1866
The Cairo Democrat	Cairo	1866–1868
The Cairo Times	Cairo	1866–1899
Cairo Daily Democrat	Cairo	1868–1868
The Cairo Evening Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	1868–1870
The Cairo Evening Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	1868–?
The Cairo Weekly Bulletin	Cairo	1869–1879
Cairo Evening Sun	Cairo	1870–1879
The Cairo Bulletin	Cairo	1870–1879
The Cairo Daily Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	1870–1872
The Cairo Daily Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	1870–?
The Cairo Gazette	Cairo	1870–1999
The Cairo Sun	Cairo	1870–1999
The Egyptian Sun	Cairo	1870–1879
Cairo Evening Sun	Cairo	1871–1880
The Cairo Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	1872–1878
The Cairo Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	1872–?
The Cairo Commercial	Cairo	1872–1873
The Cairo Argus and Mound City Journal	Cairo, Mound City	1875–1876
Argus-Journal	Cairo, Mound City	1876–1999
Cairo Daily Argus	Cairo	1878–1907
The Daily Cairo Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	1878–1999
The Daily Cairo Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	1878–?
Cairo Daily News	Cairo	1880–1880
Cairo Weekly News	Cairo	1880–1881
The Cairo Citizen	Cairo	1885–1886
The Citizen	Cairo	1886–1999
The Citizen	Cairo	1886–1916
The Citizen	Cairo	1899–1899
The Evening Citizen	Cairo	1899–1910
The Cairo Bulletin	Cairo	1900–1999
The Cairo Evening Citizen	Cairo	1910–1928
The Cairo Herald	Cairo	1915–1919
The Cairo Evening Citizen and Cairo Bulletin	Cairo	1928–1941
The Cairo Evening Citizen	Cairo	1941–1986
The Cairo Citizen	Cairo	1986–?
The Cairo Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	?–
The Cairo Bulletin Digitized	Cairo	?–

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18001856191319692026

Sample front pages

Chronicling America

Digitized page-1 issues from papers published in Alexander. Thumbnails link to the Library of Congress.

The Cairo Bulletin (cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878

July 26, 1873 · Cairo

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The Cairo Bulletin (cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878

August 7, 1874 · Cairo

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The Cairo Bulletin (cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878

August 12, 1874 · Cairo

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The Cairo Bulletin (cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878

April 25, 1875 · Cairo

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The Cairo Bulletin (cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878

January 21, 1876 · Cairo

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On this day — November 5

Front pages

Front pages from Alexander papers published on November 5 in past years. Refreshed when the site data is rebuilt (weekly now; could be daily).

The Cairo Daily Bulletin (cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872

November 5, 1870 · Cairo

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cairo Historic District	Cairo	District	1979
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Depot	Tamms	Building	1986
Dogtooth Bend Mounds and Village Site	Willard	Site	1978
Magnolia Manor	Cairo	Building	1969
McClure, Thomas J. and Caroline, House	McClure	Building	1996
Old Customhouse	Cairo	Building	1973
Thebes Courthouse	Thebes	Building	1972
Ward Chapel AME Church	Cairo	Building	2024

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Alexander was formed in 1819 (1819-03-04) from unknown / original county.

ALEXANDER created from Non-County Area 1 attached to UNION.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Alexander County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
626	3,313	4,707	14,808	19,384	23,980	25,496	20,316	16,061	12,264	9,590	5,240

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

65 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 65 of 65 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alexander County Poor Farm Cemetery	None	None
Bankert Cemetery	None	None
Baumgarde Cemetery	None	None
Beech Grove Cemetery	None	None
Birk Farm Cemetery	None	None
Bracken Cemetery	37.2131	-89.43841
Brockett Cemetery	None	None
Brown Homestead Cemetery	37.23254	-89.42397
Bumgard Cemetery	37.06532	-89.35646
Cairo City Cemetery	None	None
Calvary Cemetery	None	None
Cauble Cemetery	None	None
Cavender Cemetery	None	None
Childers Cemetery	37.21782	-89.34869
Clutts Cemetery	None	None
Cummins Cemetery	37.31457	-89.34785
Duck Pond Cemetery	None	None
Elco Cemetery	None	None
Fayville Cemetery	None	None
Fox Grove Cemetery	None	None
Garner Cemetery	37.22977	-89.45592
Green Lawn Memorial Gardens	37.01859	-89.1819
Hargis Cemetery	37.22365	-89.33424
Hazelwood Cemetery	None	None
Hobbs Cemetery	37.22977	-89.45619
Hodges Park Cemetery	37.16225	-89.27302
Honey Cemetery	37.25977	-89.3123
Hulen Cemetery	None	None
Hutchison Cemetery	37.24146	-89.44107
Johnson Farm Cemetery	None	None
Lake Milligan Cemetery	None	None
Lindsay Cemetery	37.314	-89.39003
McClure Cemetery	37.2831	-89.37091
McCrite Cemetery	37.28171	-89.32897
McCrite Cemetery	37.23795	-89.32251
McDaniel Cemetery	None	None
McRaven Cemetery	None	None
Miller Cemetery	37.23227	-89.42425
Miller Cemetery	37.21949	-89.36536
Miller Cemetery	37.23782	-89.34591
Mobile Cemetery	None	None
Mount Zion Cemetery	37.19363	-89.39156
Oak Grove Cemetery	None	None
Olive Branch Cemetery	37.17021	-89.35453
Palmer Cemetery	37.26338	-89.31952
Parker Cemetery	None	None
Phillips Cemetery	37.30227	-89.36202
Provo Cemetery	37.26622	-89.27271
Richland Cemetery	None	None
Richwood Cemetery	37.16865	-89.29841
Rose Hill Cemetery	37.2246	-89.45383
Sammons Cemetery	None	None
Santa Fe Cemetery	37.1623	-89.41868
Schendler Cemetery	37.08699	-89.32619
Sextons Creek Graveyard	None	None
Sheffer Cemetery	None	None
Sims Cemetery	37.31588	-89.2598
Solomon Hill Cemetery	None	None
Stretor Cemetery	None	None
The Seven Mile Graveyard	None	None
Thebes Cemetery	None	None
Thompson Cemetery	37.1681	-89.42952
Twente Cemetery	37.17419	-89.39326
Twente Cemetery	None	None
Uninty Cemetery	37.16262	-89.27305

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Shasta	37.13172	-89.39508

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Cape Girardeau	3,583	24.3 km	MO020

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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