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De Witt County, Illinois

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47newspaper titles
0digitized titles
2historic places
1854earliest paper
1839formed
15,516pop. 2020
49cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 47 newspaper titles published in De Witt County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1854. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Clinton.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in De Witt

Library of Congress
47 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
Dewitt CourierClinton1854–1899
Central TranscriptClinton1856–1862
The Dewitt County DemocratClinton1858–1999
The Clinton PublicClinton1862–1863
The Clinton UnionClinton1863–1899
The De Witt County Public, and Central TranscriptClinton1863–1864
The Clinton Public, and Central TranscriptClinton1864–1869
The Clinton TimesClinton1866–1899
Clinton Weekly RegisterClinton1868–1882
The Dewitt RegisterClinton1868–1870
The Clinton PublicClinton1869–1999
Clinton Semi-Weekly RegisterClinton1870–1872
The Farmer City RepublicanFarmer City1870–1999
The Clinton Daily PublicClinton1871–1999
Farmer City JournalFarmer City1872–1934
Farmer City JournalFarmer City1872–1934
Farmer City HeraldFarmer City1873–1875
Kenney Weekly RegisterKenney1875–1999
Farmer City ReporterFarmer City1877–1999
Farmer City ReporterFarmer City1877–1999
Kenney RecordKenney1877–1999
The Kenney GazetteKenney1881–1911
The Clinton RegisterClinton1882–1926
The IndependentWapella1883–1999
Clinton TribuneClinton1884–1884
De Witt County TribuneFarmer City1884–1999
Kenney HeraldKenney1894–1911
The Clinton Morning JournalClinton1900–1926
The Clinton JournalClinton1908–1999
The Gazette=heraldKenney1911–1942
The Farmer City NewsFarmer City1917–1999
The Farmer City NewsFarmer City1917–1999
Clinton Daily Journal and PublicClinton1927–1979
Farmer City Journal and Mansfield ExpressFarmer City1935–1941
Dewitt County ObserverClinton1940–1999
Dewitt County ObserverClinton1940–1999
Farmer City JournalFarmer City1941–1983
Farmer City JournalFarmer City1941–1983
The Kenney HeraldKenney1946–1999
Kenney, Warrensburg, Latham Tri-Town NewsKenney1960–1999
Clinton Daily JournalClinton1980–?
Farmer City Journal Saybrook Gazette and Arrowsmith NewsFarmer City1983–1984
The EagleFarmer City1983–1984
The Farmer City JournalFarmer City1984–2002
The Dewitt County ConstitutionClinton1997–?
The JournalFarmer City2002–?
Clinton Daily PublicClinton?–

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.

18501894193819822026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Magill HouseClintonBuilding2003
Moore, C. H., HouseClintonBuilding1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

De Witt was formed in 1839 (1839-03-01) from McLEAN, Macon.

DE WITT created from McLEAN and MACON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

De Witt County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

19k11k3,2471840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
3,24710,82017,01018,97219,25218,24416,89417,25318,10816,79815,516

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

49 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 49 of 49 listed
NameLatLon
Alexander Barnett CemeteryNoneNone
Baptist Cemetery40.10406-89.04736
Barnes Cemetery40.19003-88.72868
Barnett Cemetery40.1411-89.07018
Big Grove Cemetery40.27648-89.10592
Burns School CemeteryNoneNone
Cackley-Hickman CemeteryNoneNone
Campground Cemetery40.23012-88.67882
City Cemetery40.23988-88.64486
Coppenbarger CemeteryNoneNone
Coulter CemeteryNoneNone
Country Farm CemeteryNoneNone
Crum Cemetery40.24419-88.98955
De Witt Cemetery40.17592-88.79098
Evergreen Cemetery40.24227-89.12102
Fairview Cemetery40.2738-89.07708
Greenleaf Cemetery40.22133-88.66586
Griffith Cemetery40.19648-88.854
Halsey Cemetery40.26485-89.0411
Harp Family CemeteryNoneNone
Hays Cemetery40.11312-89.12882
Hill Cemetery40.1301-88.96323
Johnson Cemetery40.23465-88.79278
Lemen CemeteryNoneNone
Lisenby Cemetery40.14035-88.82025
Long Point Cemetery40.26649-88.95972
Lyons-Quinton CemeteryNoneNone
Maple Grove Cemetery40.22988-88.64019
McClimans Cemetery40.15191-89.10505
McCord Cemetery40.19644-88.74393
McGraw CemeteryNoneNone
Memorial Park Cemetery40.16275-88.96655
Nixon CemeteryNoneNone
Oak Park Cemetery40.16237-88.96867
Old Union CemeteryNoneNone
Pleasant Valley Cemetery40.10004-89.12601
Randolph Cemetery40.11772-89.1416
Rock Creek Cemetery40.24226-89.06573
Rose Cemetery40.12014-88.87871
Saint Joseph Cemetery40.2285-88.64507
Saint Patrick Cemetery40.25888-88.97599
Sugar Grove Cemetery40.2678-88.93893
Tunbridge Cemetery40.10971-89.05081
Union Cemetery40.23782-89.12925
Walden Cemetery40.25267-88.82318
Walters Cemetery40.23211-88.8207
Weaver Cemetery40.15982-88.98128
Willmore Cemetery40.16554-88.87441
Woodlawn Cemetery40.16111-88.96266

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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