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Jackson County, Illinois

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42newspaper titles

0digitized titles

20historic places

1800earliest paper

1816formed

52,974pop. 2020

91cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 42 newspaper titles published in Jackson 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 20 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Murphysboro, Carbondale, Makanda.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Jackson

Library of Congress

42 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
Jackson County Era	Murphysboro	1800–1999
The Jackson Democrat	Murphysboro	1854–1899
Carbondale Transcript	Carbondale	1856–1899
The Herald of Truth	Carbondale	1866–1899
Jackson County Era	Murphysboro, Carbondale	1873–1879
The Carbondale Observer	Carbondale	1873–1899
Jackson County Era and Southern Illinoisan	Murphysboro, Carbondale	1874–1899
The Independent	Murphysboro	1874–1999
Grand Tower Item	Grand Tower	1875–1999
Barton's Free Press	Carbondale	1878–1899
Carbondale Free Press	Carbondale	1878–1878
Industrial Tribune	Murphysboro	1878–1899
The Enterprise	Grand Tower	1878–1999
The Ava Advertiser	Ava	1888–1999
The Holiday Herald	Murphysboro	1888–1888
Carbondale Free Press	Carbondale	1890–1999
Jackson County Republican Free Press	Carbondale	1890–1899
Daily Era	Murphysboro	1891–1899
Daily Independent	Murphysboro, Carbondale	1891–1949
Jackson County Republican	Carbondale	1891–1899
The Eclipse	Campbell Hill	1894–1999
Carbondale Daily Herald	Carbondale	1899–1999
Daily Republican Era	Murphysboro	1900–1920
The Ava Citizen	Ava	1900–1999
Grand Tower News	Grand Tower	1901–1999
The Daily Free Press	Carbondale	1903–1921
The Bradley Advocate	Bradley	1914–1918
The Egyptian	Carbondale	1916–1963
Daily Republican-Era	Murphysboro	1920–1925
Carbondale Free Press	Carbondale	1921–1948
Elkville Journal	Elkville	1922–1982
The Carbondale Herald	Carbondale	1922–1955
The Egyptian Legionnaire	Eldorado, Herrin, Murphysboro	1929–1999
Keller's Egyptian Kronical	Carbondale	1934–1934
The Free Press	Carbondale	1948–1949
Big Muddy Gazette	Carbondale	1969–1972
Makanda Times Monthly	Makanda	1973–1989
Fountain Bluff News	Grand Tower	1974–1999
Grand Tower Topic	Grand Tower	?–
Jackson County Farm Bureau News	Carbondale	?–
The Ava Spokesman	Ava	?–
The Illinois Jacksonian	Springfield	?–

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

9 of 20 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

20 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cleiman Mound and Village Site	Gorham	Site	1977
Fuller, R. Buckminster, and Anne Hewlett Dome Home	Carbondale	Building	2006
Giant City State Park Lodge and Cabins	Makanda	Building	1985
Giant City Stone Fort Site	Makanda	Site	2002
Grand Tower Mining, Manufacturing and Transportation Company Site	Grand Tower	Site	1979
Grange Hall	Murphysboro	Building	1990
Hamilton, Robert W., House	Murphysboro	Building	1982
Hennessy, Cornelius, Building	Murphysboro	Building	2000
Hull, William H., House	Murphysboro	Building	2006
Illinois Central Railroad Passenger Depot	Carbondale	Building	2002
Jackson County Courthouse	Murphysboro	Building	2015
Liberty Theater	Murphysboro	Building	2012
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Depot	Murphysboro	Building	1984
Murphysboro Downtown Historic District	Murphysboro	District	2022
Murphysboro Elks Lodge	Murphysboro	Building	2005
Murphysboro Masonic Lodge No. 498 A.F & A.M	Murphysboro	Building	2024
Reef House	Carbondale	Building	1985
Riverside Park Bandshell	Murphysboro	Structure	2012
West Walnut Street Historic District	Carbondale	District	1975
Woodlawn Cemetery	Carbondale	Site	1985

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Jackson was formed in 1816 (1816-04-01) from Johnson, Randolph.

JACKSON created by Illinois Territory from JOHNSON and RANDOLPH.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,542	3,566	9,589	22,505	33,871	37,091	37,920	38,124	42,151	61,522	59,612	52,974

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

91 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 91 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Barrow Cemetery	37.91885	-89.59432
Bartlett Cemetery	37.86426	-89.48276
Beasley Cemetery	37.80324	-89.25104
Birkner Cemetery	37.90916	-89.41968
Boskydell Cemetery	37.67295	-89.20889
Bostick Cemetery	37.69428	-89.34338
Boucher Cemetery	37.79715	-89.34418
Bower Cemetery	37.83772	-89.53768
Buchanan Cemetery	37.84745	-89.63457
Calvary Cemetery	37.92614	-89.5583
Central Cemetery	37.86067	-89.26379
Cheatham Cemetery	37.90601	-89.52563
Christ Lutheran Cemetery	37.70664	-89.51754
Creath Morris Cemetery	37.75782	-89.45009
Creek Paum Cemetery	37.9303	-89.40223
Davis Cemetery	37.93476	-89.24777
Davis Number 1 Cemetery	37.9206	-89.22258
De Soto Cemetery	37.81317	-89.23193
Dillinger Cemetery	37.76716	-89.22668
Ditzler Cemetery	37.89389	-89.41786
Dutch Hill Cemetery	37.90932	-89.16288
Dutch Ridge Cemetery	37.63216	-89.32453
Elkville Cemetery	37.90529	-89.24905
Etherton Cemetery	37.68111	-89.31404
Evergreen Cemetery	37.61527	-89.20404
Evergreen Cemetery	37.89679	-89.49442
Gill Cemetery	37.92974	-89.22069
Goodbread Cemetery	37.68608	-89.48127
Graff Cemetery	37.90245	-89.45838
Greer Cemetery	37.88864	-89.22104
Hagler Cemetery	37.62111	-89.32424
Hall Cemetery	37.74268	-89.28117
Hallidayboro Cemetery	37.88525	-89.23585
Henson Cemetery	37.66282	-89.48537
Hiller Crab Orchard Cemetery	37.70187	-89.28188
Hilton Cemetery	37.64289	-89.23759
Houge Cemetery	37.82447	-89.65346
Howard Cemetery	37.8404	-89.16975
Hudson Cemetery	37.65463	-89.48124
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery	37.79967	-89.30219
Indian Hill Cemetery	37.79247	-89.18992
Isom Cemetery	37.85279	-89.63332
Johnson Cemetery	37.60959	-89.22032
Jones Cemetery	37.84777	-89.58142
Joubert Cemetery	37.93914	-89.43915
King Cemetery	37.90003	-89.45905
Koehn Cemetery	37.87143	-89.60176
Kross Cemetery	37.9178	-89.59989
Lee Cemetery	37.81164	-89.51284
Lone Oak Cemetery	37.8341	-89.45872
Looney Springs Cemetery	37.92558	-89.54107
Makanda Cemetery	37.61537	-89.20496
McBride Cemetery	37.85671	-89.54509
McCormick Cemetery	37.80336	-89.57429
Modglin Cemetery	37.89001	-89.51316
Mount Carbon Cemetery	37.74663	-89.32292
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	37.61332	-89.37106
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	37.72465	-89.2814
Murdale Gardens of Memory	37.76365	-89.28274
Murphysboro City Cemetery	37.77004	-89.33758
North County Line Cemetery	37.73369	-89.15249
Oakland Cemetery	37.73927	-89.23003
Old Vegennes Cemetery	37.92934	-89.3447
Parrish Cemetery	37.90716	-89.32422
Pleasant Grove Memorial Cemetery	37.73727	-89.28508
Poplar Ridge Cemetery	37.70072	-89.3647
Ripley Cemetery	37.81903	-89.3773
Rogers Cemetery	37.88526	-89.59031
Rowan Cemetery	37.61305	-89.24601
Russian Orthodox Cemetery	37.93534	-89.25735
Saint Andrews Cemetery	37.77374	-89.3557
Saint Lukes Cemetery	37.93431	-89.55869
Saint Peter Lutheran Cemetery	37.92626	-89.55915
Snider Hill Cemetery	37.71541	-89.19918
South County Line Cemetery	37.67505	-89.15376
Stearns Cemetery	37.61615	-89.3512
Stearns Cemetery	37.6556	-89.24697
Tower Grove Cemetery	37.77301	-89.35957
Underwood Cemetery	37.93838	-89.46564
Union Hill Cemetery	37.67532	-89.26064

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Bradley	37.94116	-89.56704
Eltham	37.66949	-89.33481

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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