Official website (http://www.mtvernon.com/)
Mount Vernon
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city located near the center of Jefferson County, Illinois, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Jefferson
- Townships
- Mount Vernon , Shiloh , Dodds , McClellan
- Total
- 14.66 sq mi (37.97 km )
- Land
- 14.58 sq mi (37.77 km )
- Water
- 0.081 sq mi (0.21 km )
- Elevation
- 518 ft (158 m)
- Density
- 1,001.2/sq mi (386.56/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 17-51180
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Mount Vernon
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Jefferson County
- Population
- 14600
- Area
- 34.065809
- Elevation
- 512
- Capital of
- Jefferson County
- Official website
- www.mtvernon.com
- Image
- Mount Vernon Center.jpg
- Households
- 6248
- Dialing code
- 618
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- Commons category
- Mount Vernon, Illinois
- Commons gallery
- Mount Vernon, Illinois
- postal code
- 62864
- inception
- 1817-00-00
- P8168
- Germigny
- water as percent of area
- 0.6146
- per capita income
- 26558
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Vernon is a city in Jefferson County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. The population was 14,600 at the 2020 census. Mount Vernon is the principal city of the Mount Vernon, Illinois micropolitan area, which includes all of Jefferson and Hamilton counties.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Vernon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.