Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Randolph
- Type
- Mayor–council
- Total
- 11.43 sq mi (29.60 km )
- Land
- 11.17 sq mi (28.93 km )
- Water
- 0.26 sq mi (0.67 km )
- Elevation
- 469 ft (143 m)
- Density
- 366.6/sq mi (141.55/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 17-71448
- Website
- spartaillinois .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Sparta
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Randolph County
- Population
- 4095
- Area
- 29.64316
- Elevation
- 147
- Image
- First National Bank in Sparta.jpg
- Households
- 1948
- Dialing code
- 618
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- Commons category
- Sparta, Illinois
- postal code
- 62286
- P8168
- ancestor worship
- water as percent of area
- 2.3821
- per capita income
- 33969
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Encyclopedic overview
Pyrite discs in coal, from an old Sparta mine. Harvard Museum of Natural History
Sparta is a city in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,095 at the 2020 census. It has a total area of 11.443 square miles (29.64 km), of which 11.17 square miles (28.93 km) (or 97.61%) is land and 0.273 square miles (0.71 km) (or 2.39%) is water.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sparta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.