Place:Champaign, Illinois, United States
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NameChampaign
Alt namesChampaignsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates40.133°N 88.2°W
Located inIllinois, United States     (1833 - )
See alsoVermilion, Illinois, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Cemetery
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery ( 1895 - )
Maplewood Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery
Saint John's Cemetery ( 1895 - )
Census-designated place
Lake of the Woods
Inhabited place
Allerton
Augerville
Bondville
Bongard
Broadlands
Champaign
Dewey
Dickerson
Fisher
Flatville
Foosland
Fulls
Gerald
Gifford
Homer
Homer
Ivesdale
Jimtown
Leverett
Longview
Lotus
Ludlow
Mahomet
Mayview
Ogden
Parkville
Pauline
Penfield
Pesotum
Philo
Rantoul ( 1854 - )
Raymond
Royal
Rutherford
Sadorus
Savoy
Sellers
Seymour
Sidney
St. Joseph
Staley
Thomasboro
Tolono
Urbana
Wilbur Heights
Military base
Chanute Field
Township
Ayers ( 1885 - )
Brown
Colfax
Newcomb
Ogden (township)
Raymond (township)
Somers
Unknown
Twin City


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Champaign County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, its population was 205,865, making it the 10th-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Urbana.

Champaign County is part of the Champaign–Urbana, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. The twin cities of Urbana and Champaign are the only cities in the county, and they nearly surround the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

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History

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Champaign County was organized in 1833, having been previously a part of Vermilion County. The county and county seat were named for Champaign County, Ohio and Urbana, Ohio respectively, the homeplace of Illinois State Senator John W. Vance, who authored the bill to create the county. The development of the county was greatly furthered by the arrival of the Chicago Branch of the Illinois Central Railroad, and even more by the establishment of the land-grant university. Later, the county also got an airport and a mass transit district. The northern part of the county experienced an economic and demographic setback with the closing of Chanute Air Training Center in the 1990s. In the 2004 Presidential election, it was one of only 15 of the 102 Illinois counties where John Kerry received a majority of the vote (50.37%).

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1833 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1833 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1833 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1833 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1836 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1840 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1840 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1878 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1840 1,475
1850 2,649
1860 14,629
1870 32,737
1880 40,863
1890 42,159
1900 47,622
1910 51,829
1920 56,959
1930 64,273
1940 70,578
1950 106,100
1960 132,436
1970 163,281
1980 168,392
1990 173,025
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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Champaign County, Illinois, United States

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Research Tips

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Resources

  • Outstanding guide to Champaign County family history and genealogy resources (FamilySearch Research Wiki). Birth, marriage, and death records, censuses, wills, deeds, county histories, cemeteries, churches, naturalizations, newspapers, libraries, and genealogical societies.
  • Champaign County ILGenWeb
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source: Family History Library Catalog


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