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Hardin County, Illinois

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13newspaper titles
0digitized titles
5historic places
1800earliest paper
1839formed
3,649pop. 2020
54cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 13 newspaper titles published in Hardin 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 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Rosiclare, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-In-Rock.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Hardin

Library of Congress
13 newspaper titles
TitlePlaceYears
The Hardin DemocratElizabethtown1800–1899
The Hardin GazetteElizabethtown1871–1882
The Hardin MineralElizabethtown1871–1899
Hardin IndependentElizabethtown1882–1889
IndependentElizabethtown1883–1999
The Home NewsElizabethtown1890–1999
The Hardin RepublicanElizabethtown1894–1999
IndependentElizabethtown1905–1911
Hardin County IndependentElizabethtown1911–?
Hardin County IndependentElizabethtown1911–?
Hardin EraCave In Rock?–
Independent-StarElizabethtown?–
The Hardin County BulletinElizabethtown?–

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

3 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Battery RockCave-in-RockSite1998
Cave-In-RockCave-In-RockSite1998
Illinois Iron FurnaceRosiclareStructure1973
Orr-Herl Mound and Village SiteRosiclareSite1978
Rose HotelElizabethtownBuilding1972

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Hardin was formed in 1839 (1839-08-05) from Pope.

HARDIN created from POPE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

7,7594,5681,3781840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,3783,7596,0247,4487,5337,7597,5305,8795,3834,8003,649

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

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

Cemeteries — 54 of 54 listed
NameLatLon
Adams Cemetery37.53365-88.22308
Angleton Cemetery37.56643-88.22058
Baldwin Cemetery37.54421-88.41281
Beaver Cemetery37.48699-88.13114
Brown Cemetery37.52171-88.07752
Cave in Rock Cemetery37.47699-88.16614
Coghill Cemetery37.55365-88.2592
Cowsert Cemetery37.4311-88.38846
Cowsert Cemetery37.45296-88.38502
Critchlow Cemetery37.42727-88.36448
Dixon Cemetery37.46477-88.3417
Dutton Cemetery37.5881-88.17781
Elizabethtown Cemetery37.44958-88.30338
Empire Cemetery37.45727-88.30003
Fellows Cemetery37.55032-88.22531
Good Hope Cemetery37.57365-88.36642
Griffith Cemetery37.54421-88.23142
Hale Cemetery37.51643-88.18086
Hall Cemetery37.56338-88.23031
Hobbs Cemetery37.54143-88.12114
Holbrook Cemetery37.52171-88.26864
Hubbs Cemetery37.51088-88.39198
Joyce Cemetery37.5356-88.32837
Karber Cemetery37.56615-88.34837
Lane Cemetery37.57393-88.27809
Lavender Cemetery37.53761-88.4042
Mathews Cemetery37.574-88.28463
McPherson Cemetery37.58643-88.2817
Mount Zion Cemetery37.55199-88.18003
Paris Cemetery37.51699-88.38198
Peters Creek Cemetery37.49227-88.24086
Pleasant Hill Cemetery37.53671-88.32892
Price Cemetery37.45058-88.3007
Pyle Cemetery37.56971-88.32179
Pyles Cemetery37.57437-88.32609
Reiner Cemetery37.55004-88.36365
Rogers Cemetery37.57772-88.28662
Rose Cemetery37.51616-88.40782
Rose Cemetery37.51643-88.40337
Rose Hill Cemetery37.52421-88.36254
Russell Cemetery37.58671-88.29559
Rutherford Cemetery37.56921-88.20642
Schutt Cemetery37.55338-88.36948
Shephard Cemetery37.4168-88.3696
Shewmaker Cemetery37.53143-88.17642
Smyrna Cemetery37.50365-88.15808
Sneed Cemetery37.56643-88.34642
Soward Cemetery37.44889-88.39497
Stone Church Cemetery37.45248-88.34357
Stuby Cemetery37.56725-88.40169
Tinsley Cemetery37.53588-88.25447
Troutman Cemetery37.43956-88.37775
Twitchell Cemetery37.46369-88.38213
Waters Cemetery37.57393-88.2917
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Mineral City37.4095-88.35337

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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