Hartford
December 13, 2017
Last modified: December 14, 2017
Hartford is a village in Madison County. Prior to their western expedition, Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1803 to 1804 within the present-day village limits of Hartford. Hartford was incorporated March 9, 1920,1 and by 1930 had a population of 1,566.2 As of the 2010 census, Hartford village has 1,429 residents.3
Hartford in 2017
From the Maps & Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office
To access the village of Hartford’s website, follow this link.
Endnotes
| 1. | arrow_upward | Flagg, James S., editor, Our 150 Years, 1812-1962. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61. |
| 2. | arrow_upward | Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Population Volume I (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931), 303. |
| 3. | arrow_upward | Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 128. |
Hartford Articles (3 Total)
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East Alton / Wood River School District #14February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
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Roxana Community Unit School District #1February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
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Wood River / Hartford Elementary School District #15February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
Cite this article: Nichol Allen and Ben Ostermeier, "Hartford," Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive for Madison County, Illinois, last modified December 14, 2017, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/encyclopedia/hartford/.
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