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Ford County
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county in Illinois, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- Founded
- February 17, 1859
- Named after
- Thomas Ford
- Seat
- Paxton
- Largest city
- Paxton
- Total
- 486 sq mi (1,260 km )
- Land
- 486 sq mi (1,260 km )
- Water
- 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km ) 0.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 13,216
- Density
- 27.8/sq mi (10.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional districts
- 2nd , 16th
- Website
- www .fordcountycourthouse .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Thomas Ford
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Illinois
- Capital
- Paxton
- Population
- 13534
- Area
- 1260
- Shares border with
- Livingston County
- Official website
- fordcounty.illinois.gov
- Image
- Ford County Courthouse in Paxton.jpg
- Households
- 5824
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- Commons category
- Ford County, Illinois
- topic's main category
- Category:Ford County, Illinois
- inception
- 1859-02-17
- different from
- Ford County
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Ford County, Illinois
- water as percent of area
- 0.1
- native label
- Ford County
- per capita income
- 29288
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 13,534. Its county seat is Paxton. Ford County was part of the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area until 2018, when the Office of Management and Budget removed the county from the area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ford County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.