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Clark County, Illinois

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41newspaper titles
0digitized titles
9historic places
1800earliest paper
1819formed
15,455pop. 2020
115cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 41 newspaper titles published in Clark County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1800. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 9 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Marshall, Clark Center.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Clark

Library of Congress
41 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
Clark County DemocratMarshall1800–1979
The ACORNCasey1800–1999
The Marshall Weekly MessengerMarshall1800–1999
The Illinois State DemocratMarshall1849–1899
The Eastern IllinoisanMarshall1852–1899
The Marshall TelegraphMarshall1852–1899
Clark County TelegraphMarshall1855–1899
The HornetMarshall1859–1899
The Flag of Our UnionMarshall1861–1899
The Marshall MessengerMarshall1865–1871
The Marshall Weekly MessengerMarshall1865–1869
Clark County HeraldMarshall1868–1908
Martinsville ExpressMartinsville1871–1999
Martinville ExpressMartinville1871–1899
The Marshall Weekly MessengerMarshall1871–1874
The Casey Weekly TimesCasey1873–1999
The Marshall MessengerMarshall1874–1899
Church ProgressMarshall1878–1888
Eastern IllinoisanMarshall1878–1885
The ACORNMarshall1881–1899
The Casey AdvocateCasey1881–?
The Early BirdMarshall1883–1999
The Martinsville PlanetMartinsville1884–1991
The IntelligencerWestfield1891–1999
Clark County ACORNMarshall1899–1907
Ashmore, Kansas, Westfield NeighborsCasey1900–1998
The Casey ReporterCasey1900–1944
The Marshall RepublicanMarshall1907–1910
The Marshall HeraldMarshall1908–1986
Casey Daily ReporterCasey1944–1978
Marshall IndependentMarshall1976–1996
Daily ReporterCasey1978–1984
The Marshall ChoiceMarshall1980–1996
Martinsville GazetteWest Union1994–2000
Hutsonville PearlHutsonville1996–1997
Marshall AdvocateMarshall1996–?
The Marshall Independent ChoiceMarshall1996–?
The GuardianCasey1997–?
The Clark County Daily ChronicleMarshall1999–2000
The Casey Banner-TimesCasey?–
The Casey CommercialCasey?–

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

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 9 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

9 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Archer House HotelMarshallBuilding1976
Dulaney, Robert L., HouseMarshallBuilding1997
First Congregational ChurchMarshallBuilding2003
Harlan HallMarshallBuilding2001
Lewis, John W., HouseMarshallBuilding1982
Manly-McCann HouseMarshallBuilding1982
Marshall Business Historic DistrictMarshallDistrict2013
Old Stone Arch BridgeClark CenterStructure1978
Old Stone Arch, National RoadMarshallStructure1975

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Clark was formed in 1819 (1819-03-22) from Crawford.

CLARK created from CRAWFORD.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

24k12k9311820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
9317,45314,98721,89424,03321,16518,84217,36216,54616,91317,00815,455

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

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

Cemeteries — 80 of 115 listed
NameLatLon
Arbuckle CemeteryNoneNone
Asbury Cemetery39.45864-87.64002
Ashley CemeteryNoneNone
Auburn Cemetery39.36491-87.7821
Aubury Church CemeteryNoneNone
Auer Family CemeteryNoneNone
Bailiff Cemetery39.17383-87.69883
Baird Cemetery39.29545-87.8741
Baptist CemeteryNoneNone
Baughman Cemetery39.21162-87.97291
Bean CemeteryNoneNone
Bennett Cemetery39.2165-87.88986
Black Cemetery39.3892-87.53391
Blackburn Cemetery39.32129-87.9227
Blackhawk Mass GraveNoneNone
Blizzard Cemetery39.29664-87.72201
Blizzard Family CemeteryNoneNone
Bluegrass Cemetery39.40937-87.87023
Briscoe CemeteryNoneNone
Bubeck Cemetery39.33433-87.66082
Buckner CemeteryNoneNone
Butternut Cemetery39.20476-87.88881
Casey City Cemetery39.29828-87.97955
Casey Cumberland Cemetery39.30501-87.98261
Cass Cooper CemeteryNoneNone
Clarksville Baptist Cemetery39.44838-87.7938
Connelly Cemetery39.4288-87.93742
Conrad Baptist Cemetery39.46613-87.94136
Cumberland Baptist CemeteryNoneNone
Cumberland Cemetery39.38253-87.61335
Darwin Cemetery39.28153-87.61137
Davis Cemetery39.41523-87.79813
Dean Cemetery39.35114-87.60613
Dennison Cemetery39.46503-87.58724
Dugger CemeteryNoneNone
Dunlap CemeteryNoneNone
Ellsworth CemeteryNoneNone
Ennis Cemetery39.42301-87.87743
Evans CemeteryNoneNone
Farris Cemetery39.4651-87.58725
Filloon CemeteryNoneNone
Forsythe Cemetery39.46422-87.68623
Fox Cemetery39.30881-87.73737
Fox Family CemeteryNoneNone
Gard CemeteryNoneNone
Good Hope Cemetery39.44419-88.0058
Green Moss Cemetery39.43712-87.83521
Hall Cemetery39.32531-87.60863
Harrison Cemetery39.20839-87.67935
Hogue Cemetery39.19899-87.66195
Indian Burial GroundNoneNone
Island Grove Cemetery39.2756-87.8225
Janney CemeteryNoneNone
Johnson CemeteryNoneNone
Kale CemeteryNoneNone
Kenderdine CemeteryNoneNone
Kickapoo CemeteryNoneNone
Kohl CemeteryNoneNone
Liberty Cemetery39.23463-87.72189
Lichtenberger CemeteryNoneNone
Liffick Cemetery39.36836-87.55252
Liffick CemeteryNoneNone
Lincoln Cemetery39.36305-87.88199
Lindsey Cemetery39.39412-87.92568
Livingston Cemetery39.40489-87.64529
Macke Cemetery39.3596-87.61766
Maple Hill Cemetery39.46014-87.9928
Marshall Cemetery39.40456-87.70973
Marshall City Cemetery39.40475-87.71002
Martinsville City Cemetery39.33083-87.88613
McDaniel CemeteryNoneNone
Medsker Cemetery39.23172-87.77704
Methodist Church Cemetery39.45539-88.00083
Mitchell Cemetery39.40217-87.75418
Mound CemeteryNoneNone
Mount Cemetery39.24811-87.96382
Mount Olive Cemetery39.17422-87.7395
Mount Pleasant Cemetery39.30985-87.80487
New Haddix CemeteryNoneNone
New Home CemeteryNoneNone
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Griffin39.4467-87.65475

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

Historical markers

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