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White County

county in Illinois, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_illinois Q488505

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Illinois
Inception
1815[14]
Official website
www.whitecounty-il.gov[16]
Native label
White County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.090°, -88.180°[15]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Illinois[2]
Shares border with
Edwards County, Gallatin County, Gibson County, Posey County, Saline County, Hamilton County, Wayne County, Wabash County[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Population and size

Area
+502
Population
14k (14k–15k, n=7)[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 14,665 · 14,638 · 14,613 · 14,584 · 14,549 GeoNames 13,665 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +10
Capital
Carmi[4]
Different from
White County, White County, White County, White County
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Illinois/White County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in White County, Illinois
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108379
Named after
Isaac White[13]
Number of households
+6040
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/White County, Illinois
Per capita income
+27449
Water as percent of area
+1.4
🏷️ Also known as
en White County en White County, IL en White County, Illinois ar مقاطعة وايت ar مقاطعه وايت، إلينوي el Κομητεία Γουάιτ es condado de White es White County fa شهرستان وایت fi Whiten piirikunta fr comté de White fr White County he מחוז וייט hu White megye it contea di White it White County ja ホワイト郡 ko 화이트군 pl Hrabstwo White pt White County
🔖 Identifiers · 27
VIAF cluster ID
155947810
Library of Congress authority ID
n81050412
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Carmi, Illinois - 14228963487.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
18962
Ballotpedia ID
White_County,_Illinois
FIPS 6-4 ID
17193
Freebase ID
/m/0nts9
GADM ID
USA.14.98_1
GNIS Feature ID
424297
GeoNames ID
4252955
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000537
HASC
US.IL.WE
Show all 27 identifiers +15
INaturalist place ID
1246
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.17193
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007562047405171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00201580
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791630
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1800962
Our Campaigns container ID
949
Taxonomicon ID
1805376
Topic's main category
Category:White County, Illinois
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039311
UMLS CUI
C3810722
Who's on First ID
102083525
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"WhiteCounty", "Illinois", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJxWTKQG8kFKdwVfYWCvpP
Yale LUX ID
place/b5ce91be-ddb8-48c8-86a2-cdd1420da0b0
📚 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
122 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 18
Grayville, Crossville, Enfield, Maunie, Norris City, Springerton, Burnt Prairie, Phillipstown +10 more
Shares border with 8
Edwards County, Hamilton County, Gallatin County, Saline County, Wayne County, Gibson County, Posey County, Wabash County
← Shares border with 8
Edwards County, Hamilton County, Gallatin County, Saline County, Wayne County, Gibson County, Posey County, Wabash County
Different from 4
White County, White County, White County, White County
← Different from 4
White County, White County, White County, White County
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from White County, Illinois, Category:Geography of White County, Illinois, Category:Populated places in White County, Illinois
Capital 1
Carmi
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from White County, Illinois
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Illinois
Topic's main category 1
Category:White County, Illinois
← Capital of 1
Carmi
← Category's main topic 1
Category:White County, Illinois
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Illinois
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Summary

White County is a county of Illinois[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

White County covers an area of {'amount': '+502'}[24].

Related Entities

Illinois United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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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. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/White County, Illin
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/White County, Illinois.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidentia"
  2. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3810722
    Taxonomicon ID → 1805376
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00201580
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31546|batch #31546]]"
  3. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Shares border with → Edwards County, Gallatin County, Gibson County +5
    Population → {'amount': '+14665'}, {'amount': '+14638'}, {'amount': '+14613'} +4
    Capital → Carmi
    List of monuments → National Register of Historic Places listings in White County, Illinois
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ NCI Thesaurus ID: C108379, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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