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Wayne County

county in Illinois, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_illinois Q113793
Wayne County
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Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Illinois
Inception
1819[13]
Official website
www.fairfield-il.com[15]
Native label
Wayne County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.430°, -88.420°[14]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Illinois[2]
Shares border with
Clay County, Hamilton County, Richland County, Edwards County, White County, Jefferson County, Marion County[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Population and size

Area
+715
Population
16k (16k–17k, n=7)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
More facts +9
Capital
Fairfield[4]
Different from
Wayne County
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Illinois/Wayne County
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108378
Named after
Anthony Wayne[12]
Number of households
+7114
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/Wayne County, Illinois
Per capita income
+26502
Water as percent of area
+0.2
🏷️ Also known as
en Wayne County en Wayne County, IL en Wayne County, Illinois ar مقاطعة وين ar مقاطعه وين، إلينوي el κομητεία Γουέιν es condado de Wayne es Wayne County fa شهرستان وینه fi Waynen piirikunta fr comté de Wayne fr Wayne County he מחוז ויין hu Wayne megye it contea di Wayne it Wayne County ja ウェイン郡 ko 웨인군 pl Hrabstwo Wayne pt Wayne County
🔖 Identifiers · 28
VIAF cluster ID
146594354
Library of Congress authority ID
n81124758
ArchINFORM location ID
18961
Ballotpedia ID
Wayne_County,_Illinois
FIPS 6-4 ID
17191
Freebase ID
/m/0ntsp
GADM ID
USA.14.97_1
GNIS Feature ID
424296
GeoNames ID
4252607
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1003003
HASC
US.IL.WY
INaturalist place ID
2358
Show all 28 identifiers +16
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.17191
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007559605905171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00201581
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791631
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1801539
OpenWeatherMap city ID
4252607
Our Campaigns container ID
958
Quora topic ID
Wayne-County-IL
Taxonomicon ID
1805375
Topic's main category
Category:Wayne County, Illinois
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10037114
UMLS CUI
C3813258
Who's on First ID
102082299
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"WayneCounty", "Illinois", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJrgM7pwYBwCkGHHC86xjC
Yale LUX ID
place/e785c42d-a39b-4319-a9df-2f72a1046e90
📚 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
135 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
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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
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 30
Fairfield, Cisne, Sims, Wayne City, Jeffersonville, Johnsonville, Mill Shoals, Mount Erie +22 more
Shares border with 7
Clay County, Edwards County, Marion County, Hamilton County, Jefferson County, White County, Richland County
← Shares border with 7
Clay County, Edwards County, Marion County, Hamilton County, Jefferson County, White County, Richland County
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Wayne County, Illinois, Category:Populated places in Wayne County, Illinois
← Different from 2
Wayne County, Wayne
Capital 1
Fairfield
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Wayne County, Illinois
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Wayne County
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Illinois
Named after 1
Anthony Wayne
Topic's main category 1
Category:Wayne County, Illinois
← Capital of 1
Fairfield
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Wayne County, Illinois
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Illinois
← FactGrid item ID 1
Esnans
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Summary

Wayne County is a county of Illinois[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Wayne County covers an area of {'amount': '+715'}[23].

Related Entities

Illinois United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1819-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Named after → —
    Located in → —
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00201581
    + 31 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Wayne County, Illinois.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidentia"
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