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Adams County
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county in Illinois, United States
Adams County is a county located in Illinois in the United States. It is one of the many counties that make up the state's administrative and governmental structure.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- Named after
- John Quincy Adams
- Seat
- Quincy
- Largest city
- Quincy
- Total
- 871 sq mi (2,260 km )
- Land
- 855 sq mi (2,210 km )
- Water
- 16 sq mi (41 km ) 1.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 64,267
- Density
- 76.9/sq mi (29.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 15th
- Website
- www .co .adams .il .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- John Quincy Adams
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Illinois
- Contains
- Payson Township
- Capital
- Quincy
- Population
- 65737
- Area
- 2257
- Shares border with
- Lewis County
- Official website
- www.co.adams.il.us
- Image
- Adams County Courthouse, Quincy.jpg
- Households
- 27199
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- Commons category
- Adams County, Illinois
- topic's main category
- Category:Adams County, Illinois
- inception
- 1825-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Adams County, Illinois
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Adams County, Illinois
- different from
- Adams County
- water as percent of area
- 1.9
- native label
- Adams County
- per capita income
- 31035
- topic has template
- Template:Adams County, Illinois
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Encyclopedic overview
Adams County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 65,737. Its county seat is Quincy. Adams County is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adams County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.