Venice
December 8, 2017
Last modified: February 26, 2018
The township of Venice was settled by Americans as early as 1804.1 In 1841 the village was given the name Venice by Dr. Cornelius Campbell, who, along with Charles F. Stamps laid out and plotted the town.6 By 1880, Venice had a population of 612.2 Venice was officially incorporated February 5, 1897.3 In 1950, Venice reached the height of its population with 6,226 people.4 As of 2010 census, Venice has 1,890 residents.5
Venice in 2017
From the Maps & Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office
Endnotes
| 1. | arrow_upward | History of Madison County, Illinois, Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers (Edwardsville: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), 520. |
| 2. | arrow_upward | Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883), 139. |
| 3. | arrow_upward | Flagg, James S., editor, Our 150 Years, 1812-1962. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61. |
| 4. | arrow_upward | A Report of the Seventeenth Decennial Census of the United States, Census of Population: 1950, Volume I Number of Inhabitants (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1952), 13-31. |
| 5. | arrow_upward | Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing (Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 64. |
| 6. | arrow_upward | Ibid., 522. |
Venice Articles (7 Total)
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Granite City Community Unit School District #9February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
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Madison Community Unit School District #12February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
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Route 66 in Madison CountyApril 9, 2018 by Cheryl Eichar Jett |
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School District Consolidation in Madison CountyMay 4, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
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Venice Community Unit School District #3February 14, 2017 by Lesley Thomson |
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Venice High School Boys BasketballAugust 29, 2018 by Austin Johnson |
Venice Riots, 1969December 1, 2021 by Andrew Niederhauser |
Cite this article: Nichol Allen, "Venice," Madison Historical: The Online Encyclopedia and Digital Archive for Madison County, Illinois, last modified February 26, 2018, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/encyclopedia/venice/.
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