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Boone County Fact Sheet


Boone County Government Complex


Original Boone County Courthouse

Addresses for County Courthouse and IRAD:

Boone County Courthouse
601 North Main Street
Belvidere, IL 61008
  • Telephone:

County Clerk
Circuit Clerk
Recorder
 

(815) 544-3103
(815) 544-0371
(815) 544-3103
 
IRAD Depository
Regional History Center
Founders Memorial Library
Room 400
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
  • Telephone: (815) 753-1807

Established:

March 4, 1837 (Laws, 1837, p. 96)
 

Origin of the name of the county:
  Named for Daniel Boone, a pioneer hunter, Indian fighter and pathfinder of the early days.
     

Present area, or parts of it, formerly included in:
 

1836–1837

Winnebago
 

1831–1836

LaSalle
 

1825–1831

Putnam
 

1823–1825

Fulton
 

1821–1823

Pike
 

1819–1821

Clark
 

1816–1819

Crawford
 

1815–1816

Edwards
 

1812–1815

Madison
 

1801–1812

St. Clair
     

County Seat:

 

1837–

Belvidere
     

History of county governing board:
 

1837–1850

County Commissioners’ Court
 

1850–

County Board of Supervisors
     

Township Government
 

Adopted:

November 6, 1849
     

Township Names 
 

Belvidere

  
 

Bonus

  
 

Boone

  
 

Caledonia

  
 

Flora

Original name of Fairfield changed to Burton in April, 1851 and to Flora in October, 1851.
 

Leroy

  
 

Manchester

  
 

Poplar Grove

Formed from Caledonia and Boone after 1921.
 

Spring

Original name of Concord changed to Ohio in April, 1851 and to Spring in October, 1851

 

Township Map

Click on thumbnail to view a map of Boone County and its civil and congressional townships.
 
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