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Plattville, Illinois | |
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 Location of Plattville in Kendall County, Illinois. | |
.svg) Location of Illinois in the United States | |
| Coordinates: 41°32′05″N 88°22′20″W / 41.53472°N 88.37222°W[1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Illinois |
| County | Kendall |
| Township | Lisbon |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | June McCord (acting) |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.26 sq mi (5.85 km2) |
| • Land | 2.26 sq mi (5.85 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 600 ft (200 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 220 |
| • Density | 97.39/sq mi (37.60/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 60560 |
| Area codes | 630 / 331/815 |
| FIPS code | 17-60391 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2399688[1] |
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Plattville is a village in Lisbon Township, Kendall County, Illinois, United States, west of Joliet. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 242.[4] The community was established in 1860 and named after founder Daniel Platt,[5] who first built a home there in 1834 on the Frink and Walker stagecoach route between Chicago and Ottawa.[6]
Plattville was officially incorporated in March 2006[7] and had an estimated population of 245 in 2007.[8] Plattville's first mayor was George "Jerry" Friel, who died in 2009. He was instrumental in his role in incorporating the village of Plattville in the mid-2000s, and spent some of his own money to file the town's incorporation papers.[9]
Geography
[edit]Plattville is in south-central Kendall County, 17 miles (27 km) west of the center of Joliet but less than 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the city's western limits. The village is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Yorkville lies to the north, and Lisbon lies to the southwest.
According to the 2010 census, Plattville has a total area of 2.27 square miles (5.88 km2), all land.[10]
Demographics
[edit]In 2010, the village was 94.6 percent White, 5 percent Hispanic, and 0.4 percent Two or more races.
| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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| 2010 | 242 | — | |
| 2020 | 220 | −9.1% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[11] | |||
References
[edit]- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Plattville, Illinois
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ Kendall County History Archived August 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Plattville village, Illinois". American Factfinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved February 25, 2019.[dead link]
- ^ "Geographical Features and Place Names of Kendall County". The USGenWeb Project.
- ^ "Historical Hotels and Inns of Kendall County, Illinois". The USGenWeb Project.
- ^ "2007 New Incorporations". Geography Division, United States Census Bureau. May 19, 2006. Archived from the original (TXT) on October 5, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2008.
- ^ "Table 4. Annual Estimates of the Population for Incorporated Places in Illinois: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. July 10, 2007. Archived from the original (CSV) on September 26, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2008.
- ^ Vergara, Rowena (June 9, 2009). "Plattville says goodbye to its first mayor". Aurora Beacon News. Retrieved July 7, 2009. [dead link]
- ^ "G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Census Summary File 1". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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