Place:Lake, Illinois, United States

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Name	Lake
Alt names	Lake	source: Getty Vocabulary Program
Type	County
Coordinates	42.333°N 88°W
Located in	Illinois, United States (1839 - )
See also	Putnam, Illinois, United States	Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)

Contained Places

Census-designated place: Channel Lake; Forest Lake; Fox Lake Hills; Gages Lake; Grandwood Park; Lake Catherine; Long Lake; Venetian Village
Inhabited place: Antioch; Aptakisic; Bannockburn; Beach Park; Beach Station; Beach; Briergate; Cuba; Deer Park; Deerfield; Deerpath; Diamond Lake; Druce Lake; Eddy; Fairfield; Fossland; Fox Lake; Fox River Grove; Fremont Center; Goodenow; Grass Lake; Grayslake; Green Oaks; Gurnee; Hainesville; Half Day; Hawthorn Woods; Hickory Corners; Highland Park; Highmoor; Highwood; Horatio Gardens; Indian Creek; Ingleside Shore; Ingleside; Island Lake; Ivanhoe; Kennedy; Kildeer; Klondike; Knollwood; Lake Barrington; Lake Bluff; Lake Corner; Lake Forest; Lake Villa; Lake Zurich; Lakemoor; Libertyville; Lincolnshire; Lindenhurst; Line; Long Grove; Loon Lake; Lotus Woods; Melody; Mettawa; Millburn; Monaville; Monee; Mundelein; Mylith Park; North Barrington; North Chicago; Oak Grove; Old Mill Creek; Park City; Port Barrington; Quentin Corners; Ravina; Riverwoods; Rollins; Rondout; Rosecrans; Round Lake Beach; Round Lake Heights; Round Lake Park; Round Lake; Russell; Skokie Junction; Skokie Manor; Spaulding Corners; Steger; Sylvan Lake; Third Lake; Tower Lake; Tower Lakes; Vernon Hills; Volo; Wadsworth; Wauconda; Waukegan; Wedges Corner; Wildwood; Williams Park; Wilson; Winthrop Harbor Station; Winthrop Harbor; Woodridge; Zion
Military base: Ft Sheridan ( 1887 - 1993 )
Township: Antioch (township); Avon; Cuba (township); Ela; Fremont; Grant; Lake Villa (township); Libertyville (township); Moraine; Newport; Shields; Warren; West Deerfield
Unknown: Buffalo Grove; Prairie View; West Lake Forest

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Lake County is a county in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 703,462, making it the third-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Waukegan. Originally part of McHenry County, the townships composing Lake County were carved out into a separate county in 1839.

Lake County is one of the collar counties of the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located along the shore of Lake Michigan.

According to the 2000 census, Lake County is the 31st richest county by per capita income. The lakefront communities of Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and Highland Park are part of the affluent North Shore area.

Naval Station Great Lakes is located in the city of North Chicago in Lake County. It is the United States Navy's Headquarters Command for training, and the Navy's only recruit training center.

1 Timeline
2 Population History
3 Cemeteries
4 Research Tips
5 Resources

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Timeline

Date	Event	Source
1836	Marriage records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1839	County formed	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1839	Land records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1839	Probate records recorded	Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1840	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
1877	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	2,634
1850	14,226
1860	18,257
1870	21,014
1880	21,296
1890	24,235
1900	34,504
1910	55,058
1920	74,285
1930	104,387
1940	121,094
1950	179,097
1960	293,656
1970	382,638
1980	440,372
1990	516,418

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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Lake County, Illinois, United States

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Research Tips

Outstanding guide to Lake 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.

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Resources

Lake County ILGenWeb

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

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