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Clay County

county in Illinois, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_illinois Q110417
Clay County
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Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Illinois
Inception
1824[12]
Official website
claycountyillinois.org[14]
Native label
Clay County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.760°, -88.490°[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Illinois[2]
Shares border with
Effingham County, Wayne County, Fayette County, Marion County, Jasper County, Richland County[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+1217
Population
13k (13k–14k, n=7)[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 13,815 · 13,825 · 13,757 · 13,746 · 13,566 GeoNames 13,184 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +9
Capital
Louisville[4]
Different from
Clay County
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Illinois/Clay County
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108295
Named after
Henry Clay[11]
Number of households
+5506, +5607[22]
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/Clay County, Illinois
Per capita income
+29950
Water as percent of area
+0.3
🏷️ Also known as
en Clay County en Clay County, IL en Clay County, Illinois ar مقاطعة كلاي ar مقاطعه كلاي، إلينوي el κομητεία Κλέι es Clay County es condado de Clay fa شهرستان کلی fi Clayn piirikunta fr Clay County fr comté de Clay he מחוז קליי hu Clay megye it Clay County it contea di Clay ja クレイ郡 ko 클레이군 pl Hrabstwo Clay pt Clay County
🔖 Identifiers · 27
VIAF cluster ID
146592234
Library of Congress authority ID
n81095825
ArchINFORM location ID
18882
Ballotpedia ID
Clay_County,_Illinois
FIPS 6-4 ID
17025
Freebase ID
/m/0fvcd
GADM ID
USA.14.13_1
GNIS Feature ID
424214
GeoNames ID
4235992
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1002277
HASC
US.IL.CY
INaturalist place ID
2092
Show all 27 identifiers +15
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.17025
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007552865905171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00201574
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791724
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1801518
Our Campaigns container ID
960
Quora topic ID
Clay-County-IL
Taxonomicon ID
1805292
Topic's main category
Category:Clay County, Illinois
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10036614
UMLS CUI
C3816488
Who's on First ID
102086203
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"ClayCounty", "Illinois", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJdRy8bwdKPJmJBWBBvfv3
Yale LUX ID
place/94b4fc23-ecc7-4017-8406-60e4392f0114
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
133 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 18
Flora, Louisville, Clay City, Xenia, Iola, Sailor Springs, Xenia Township, Blair Township +10 more
Shares border with 6
Effingham County, Fayette County, Marion County, Wayne County, Jasper County, Richland County
← Shares border with 6
Effingham County, Fayette County, Marion County, Wayne County, Jasper County, Richland County
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from Clay County, Illinois, Category:Populated places in Clay County, Illinois, Category:Geography of Clay County, Illinois
Capital 1
Louisville
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Clay County, Illinois
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Clay County
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Illinois
Named after 1
Henry Clay
Topic's main category 1
Category:Clay County, Illinois
← Capital of 1
Louisville
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Clay County, Illinois
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Illinois
← FactGrid item ID 1
Chauvigny-du-Perche
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Summary

Clay County is a county of Illinois[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Clay County covers an area of {'amount': '+1217'}[23].

Related Entities

Henry Clay Illinois United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Clay County, Illino
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Clay County, Illinois.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidential"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Shares border with → Effingham County, Wayne County, Fayette County +3
    Named after → —
    Area → {'amount': '+1217'}
    Local thumb → —
    + 30 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31546|batch #31546]]"
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