Carlyle is a city in
Clinton CountyClinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1960. Clinton County is part of the St. Louis Metro Area. As of 2006, the population was 36,633. Its county seat is Carlyle,...
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IllinoisIllinois , the 21st state admitted to the United States of America, is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern state and the fifth most populous state in the nation...
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. The population was 3,406 at the 2000 census. It is the
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Clinton CountyClinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1960. Clinton County is part of the St. Louis Metro Area. As of 2006, the population was 36,633. Its county seat is Carlyle,...
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Carlyle is located approximately 50 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, and is home to Illinois' largest man-made lake,
Carlyle LakeCarlyle Lake is a reservoir largely located in Clinton County, Illinois, with smaller portions of the lake within Bond and Fayette counties. It is the largest man made lake in Illinois and the largest lake wholly within the state....
, and to the
General Dean Suspension BridgeThe General Dean Suspension Bridge is named after Major General William F. Dean. Dean served during the Korean War and was a native of Carlyle, Illinois, which is where the bridge spans the Kaskaskia River in Clinton County. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was...
, a suspension bridge that is the only one of its kind in Illinois and crosses the
Kaskaskia RiverThe Kaskaskia River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 320 miles long, in central and southern Illinois in the United States...
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The town was previously thought to be named for
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.
Coming from a strict Calvinist family,...
,
ScottishScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
essayist.
Carlyle is a city in
Clinton CountyClinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1960. Clinton County is part of the St. Louis Metro Area. As of 2006, the population was 36,633. Its county seat is Carlyle,...
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IllinoisIllinois , the 21st state admitted to the United States of America, is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern state and the fifth most populous state in the nation...
,
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The population was 3,406 at the 2000 census. It is the
county seatA county seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there...
of
Clinton CountyClinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1960. Clinton County is part of the St. Louis Metro Area. As of 2006, the population was 36,633. Its county seat is Carlyle,...
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Carlyle is located approximately 50 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri, and is home to Illinois' largest man-made lake,
Carlyle LakeCarlyle Lake is a reservoir largely located in Clinton County, Illinois, with smaller portions of the lake within Bond and Fayette counties. It is the largest man made lake in Illinois and the largest lake wholly within the state....
, and to the
General Dean Suspension BridgeThe General Dean Suspension Bridge is named after Major General William F. Dean. Dean served during the Korean War and was a native of Carlyle, Illinois, which is where the bridge spans the Kaskaskia River in Clinton County. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was...
, a suspension bridge that is the only one of its kind in Illinois and crosses the
Kaskaskia RiverThe Kaskaskia River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 320 miles long, in central and southern Illinois in the United States...
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History
The town was previously thought to be named for
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.
Coming from a strict Calvinist family,...
,
ScottishScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
essayist. However, the city was given the name "Carlisle" in approximately 1819. Thomas Carlyle's first major work,
Sartor Resartus, was not written until 1832. The spelling was changed to "Carlyle" in 1828, making it quite unlikely that Carlyle is named for the writer. Carlyle is now known for it's man-made lake, the largest in all of Illinois, and this has caused it to accumulate a great deal of tourism
Geography
Carlyle is located at (38.612642, -89.370789).
According to the
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, the city has a total area of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km²), all of it land.
Demographics
As of the
censusA "census" is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population.In other words every 10 years...next one would be in 2010 The term is used mostly in connection with...
of 2000, there were 3,406 people, 1,370 households, and 902 families residing in the city. The
population densityPopulation density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans. It is a key term used in geography....
was 1,137.9 people per square mile (439.8/km²). There were 1,464 housing units at an average density of 489.1/sq mi (189.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 95.24% White, 3.41% African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.12% from
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, and 0.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.82% of the population.
There were 1,370 households out of which 29.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.7% were
married couplesMarriage is a social union or legal contract between individuals that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged by a variety of ways, depending on the culture or demographic...
living together, 11.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.1% were non-families. 30.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.96.
In the city the population was spread out with 23.3% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 24.4% from 25 to 44, 21.3% from 45 to 64, and 21.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 88.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.3 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $36,660, and the median income for a family was $48,056. Males had a median income of $35,977 versus $22,463 for females. The
per capita incomePer capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone. Per capita income is usually reported in units of currency per year...
for the city was $18,744. About 5.4% of families and 6.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.8% of those under age 18 and 6.6% of those age 65 or over.
Nearby towns
- Keyesport, Illinois
Keyesport is a village in Bond and Clinton counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 481 at the 2000 census.-History:Keyesport was named in honor of its postmaster, Thomas Keyes. It is on the line of Clinton County and Bond County. It was incorporated as a village in...
- Breese, Illinois
Breese is a city in Clinton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,048 at the 2000 census.-History:The town is named after Sidney Breese, a United States Senator and a contemporary of President Abraham Lincoln. Breese was founded in 1855....
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Notable residents
- Elias Smith Dennis
Elias Smith Dennis was a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Illinois who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...
, American Civil War general in the Union Army
- James Donnewald
James H. Donnewald was an American politician from the state of Illinois. He was a Democrat who served as state Treasurer from 1983 until 1987.Donnewald was born in 1925 in Carlyle, Illinois...
, Illinois State Treasurer
- Jack Slade
Joseph Alfred "Jack" Slade, , was a stagecoach and Pony Express superintendent, instrumental in the opening of the American West and the archetype of the Western gunslinger....
, American frontier figure
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