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Kane County

county in Illinois, United States
Administrative Area County Of Illinois Q486112

Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Illinois
Inception
January 16, 1836[12]
Official website
www.countyofkane.org[13]
Native label
Kane County[23]
Official name
Kane County[21]

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.950°, -88.433°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Illinois[2]
Shares border with
McHenry County, Kendall County, DeKalb County, Cook County, DuPage County, Will County[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+1357[26]
Population
517k (515k–531k, n=7)[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
More facts +10
Capital
Geneva[4]
Different from
Kane County[25]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Illinois/Kane County
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Elgin metropolitan division[28]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108327[24]
Named after
Elias Kane[11]
Number of households
+181845[22]
P14687
Data:US presidential elections by county/Kane County, Illinois.tab[30]
Per capita income
+37548[29]
Water as percent of area
+0.8[27]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kane County en Kane County, IL en Kane County, Illinois ar مقاطعه كين، إلينوي ar مقاطعة كين el κομητεία Κέιν es Condado de Kane (Illinois) es Condado de Kane fa شهرستان کین، ایلینوی fi Kanen piirikunta fr comté de Kane he מחוז קיין hu Kane megye it contea di Kane ja ケイン郡 ja ケーン・カウンティ ja ケーン郡 ja ケイン・カウンティ ko 케인군 pl Hrabstwo Kane
🔖 Identifiers · 34
ISNI
000000040591504X
VIAF cluster ID
127850404
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81050418
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Fabyan Windmill-13.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
18912
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--77323
Encyclopedia of Chicago ID
685
FIPS 6-4 ID
17089
Freebase ID
/m/0nvg4
GADM ID
USA.14.45_1
GNIS Feature ID
424246
GeoNames ID
4898166
Show all 34 identifiers +22
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1002531
HASC
US.IL.KE
Harper's tag
kane-county
INaturalist place ID
961
J9U entity ID
987007562046205171
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.17089
MusicBrainz area ID
a71bc5ab-cec3-4c4d-9be3-c91250d1393b
OBO Gazetteer ID
00201945
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791691
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1383784
OpenWeatherMap city ID
4898166
Our Campaigns container ID
925
Ringgold ID
42789
Taxonomicon ID
1805324
Topic's main category
Category:Kane County, Illinois
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10036511
UMLS CUI
C3810572
Utah History Encyclopedia ID
k/KANE_COUNTY
Who's on First ID
102086925
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"KaneCounty", "Illinois", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJy8tQ3Y4GVw6McDKqGmBP
Yale LUX ID
place/59af8db8-e0d7-46f0-8391-21279cd24d04
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 2 statements · CC BY 4.0 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.

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
269 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
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
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.
🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 45
Aurora, Elgin, Geneva, St. Charles, Bartlett, Carpentersville, Algonquin, Montgomery +37 more
Shares border with 6
Cook County, DuPage County, DeKalb County, McHenry County, Will County, Kendall County
← Shares border with 6
Cook County, DuPage County, DeKalb County, McHenry County, Will County, Kendall County
← Category combines topics 5
Category:People from Kane County, Illinois, Category:Populated places in Kane County, Illinois, Category:Geography of Kane County, Illinois, Category:Villages in Kane County, Illinois, Category:Births in Kane County, Illinois
Located in time zone 2
UTC−05:00, UTC−06:00
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Illinois, Chicago metropolitan area
Capital 1
Geneva
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Kane County, Illinois
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Kane County, Illinois
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Kane County
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Illinois
Named after 1
Elias Kane
Topic's main category 1
Category:Kane County, Illinois
← Capital of 1
Geneva
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Kane County, Illinois
← Different from 1
Kane County
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Summary

Kane County is a county of Illinois[1].

Related Entities

Illinois United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . countyofkane.org. countyofkane.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . census.gov. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . census.gov. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . census.gov. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . census.gov. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Population Estimates Program. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . countyofkane.org. countyofkane.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 26d ago · Schekinov Alexey Victorovich · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed claim: Instance of: county of Illinois"
  2. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tabular data series → Data:US presidential elections by county/Kane County, Illino
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Kane County, Illinois.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidential"
  3. 13w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #46950: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  4. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → kane-county
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: kane-county, Matched to kane county (#289945015) in Harper's tag"
  5. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00201945
    Taxonomicon ID → 1805324
    UMLS CUI → C3810572
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #31546"
  6. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Number of households → 181,845
    Topic's main category → Category:Kane County, Illinois
    Coordinate location → 41.950°, -88.433°
    Category for people born here → Category:Births in Kane County, Illinois
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: NCI Thesaurus ID: C108327, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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