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Madison County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a part of the Metro East in southern Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 264,776, [1] making it the eighth-most populous county in Illinois and the most populous in the southern portion of the state. The county seat is Edwardsville, and the largest city ...
Edwardsville is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Illinois, United States. [3] As of the 2020 census , the population was 26,808. The city was named in honor of Ninian Edwards , former Governor of the Illinois Territory.
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Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest county in Illinois. 15 counties had been created by the time Illinois achieved statehood in 1818. The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859.
Edwardsville Township is located in Madison County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 37,657 and it contained 15,482 housing units. [2] It includes the city of Edwardsville.
The Kuhn Station Site is the site of an archaeological dig on Silver Creek, near Edwardsville, Illinois. The site is roughly .3 hectares in area, and was home to a small village. The site is believed to be from the Mississippian period, but archaeologists also found artifacts dating from the Moorehead/Sand Prairie period, such as ceramics.
Prairietown is in northern Madison County, 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Staunton, 17 miles (27 km) east-northeast of Alton, and 33 miles (53 km) northeast of St. Louis. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , Prairietown has an area of 0.19 square miles (0.49 km 2 ), all land. [ 1 ]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 223 square miles (580 km 2), of which 222 square miles (570 km 2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2) (0.1%) is water. [4] It is the fourth-smallest county in Illinois by area. When Edwards County was formed in 1814, it comprised nearly half of the State of Illinois.