Sterling
Facts
17 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Inception
- 1838[6]
- Official website
- ci.sterling.il.us[8]
- Official name
- Sterling[12]
Location
- Country
- United States[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 41.800°, -89.695°[7]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Whiteside County[2]
Population and size
- Elevation above sea level
- +206[14]
More facts +5
- Described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11]
- Number of households
- +6411[13]
- Per capita income
- +28674[19]
- Territory overlaps
- Sterling urban area[18]
- Water as percent of area
- +3.9175[17]
- VIAF cluster ID
- 145433207
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n82013696
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sterling Il Brick road2.jpg ↗
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 38968
- FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
- 17-72546
- FactGrid item ID
- Gary Roberts
- Freebase ID
- /m/0sj6_
- GeoNames ID
- 4912499
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- sterling-5
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0434067
Show all 23 identifiers +11
- J9U entity ID
- 987007555169405171
- MusicBrainz area ID
- 49d7ed5a-a3a5-4f96-a55b-7a4078ae2069
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 125734
- Quora topic ID
- Sterling-IL
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 22840
- Topic's main category
- Category:Sterling, Illinois
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10040945
- UN/LOCODE
- USSGI
- Who's on First ID
- 85939483
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJqKcxFJtYpFDdx9VbtMyd
- Yale LUX ID
- place/1e6e3f2f-f8ca-4ca1-9790-fc4b61adc8ac
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- 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
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People born here 9
← Place of publication 5
Contained subdivisions 2
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
Described by source 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Instance of 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Topic's main category 1
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Summary
Sterling is a city in the United States[1].
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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
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evidence “© 2026 the Daily Gazette (Sterling, Ill.).” firehouse.com · read source