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Jersey County Fact Sheet

Addresses for County Courthouse and IRAD:

County Clerk or Recorder
Jersey County Administration Building
200 N. LaFayette
Jerseyville, IL 62052
  • Telephone:

County Clerk
Recorder
 

(618) 498-5571, ext. 115
(618) 498-5571, ext. 118
 

Circuit Clerk
Jersey County Courthouse
201 W. Pearl Street
Jerseyville, IL 62052
  • Telephone: (618) 498-5571, ext. 119

IRAD Depository
LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407
  • Telephone: (217) 206-6520

Established:

February 28, 1839 (Laws, 1839, p. 208)
     

Origin of the name of the county:
  Named for the State of New Jersey, which derived its name from the Isle of Jersey in Great Britain.
     

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

1821–1839

Greene
 

1812–1821

Madison
 

1790–1812

St. Clair
     

County Seat:
 

1839–

Jerseyville
     

History of county governing board:
 

1839–1849

County Commissioners’ Court
 

1849–1861

County Court
 

1861–18??

County Board of Supervisors
 

18??–1879

County Court (after 1873, Board of County Commissioners)
 

1879–

County Board of Supervisors
     

Township Government
 

Adoption:

November 5, 1878
   

Note: Jersey County approved township organization on November 6, 1860, and the County Court even appointed commissioners to divide the county into townships, but this organization was never completed. The commissioners’ report of 1861 divided the county into six townships (see below).
     

Township Names under 1878 Organization:
 

Elsah

  
 

English

  
 

Fidelity

  
 

Jersey

  
 

Mississippi

  
 

Otter Creek

  
 

Piasa

  
 

Quarry

Name changed from Grafton on April 1, 1880.
 

Richwoods

  
 

Rosedale

Name changed from Illinois on June 7, 1882.
 

Ruyle

  
     

Township Names under the 1860 Failed Organization:
 

Delphi

  
 

Fidelity

  
 

Fieldon

  
 

Illinois

  
 

Jersey

  
 

Mississippi

  

 

Township Map

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

 

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