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Clinton County
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county in Illinois, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- Named after
- DeWitt Clinton
- Seat
- Carlyle
- Largest city
- Breese
- Total
- 503 sq mi (1,300 km )
- Land
- 474 sq mi (1,230 km )
- Water
- 29 sq mi (75 km ) 5.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 37,128
- Density
- 77.8/sq mi (30.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 12th
- Website
- clintonco .illinois .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. At the 2020 census, the population was 36,899. Its county seat is Carlyle. In 1960, the United States Census Bureau placed the mean center of U.S. population in Clinton County. Clinton County is part of the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clinton County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.