Jonesboro

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Jonesboro

Total population

1,870

Elevation158 m

Land area7.01 km²

Coordinates37.45°, -89.27°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Jonesboro is a city in Union County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Jonesboro had a population of 1,711. It is the county seat of Union County. The city is known for being tied to its close neighbor Anna, together known as Anna-Jonesboro.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Health (adults)

Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).

Schools

Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).

Notable people from here

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Frank Willard

American cartoonist (1893–1958)

M

Mamie Eva Keith

American supercentenarian (1873-1986)

D

Delos Brown

American baseball player

G

Gary Forby

American politician

G

George M. C. Fisher

American businessman

Matthew Arlington Batson

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1866-1917)

S

Stuart Forbes

American football player and coach (1876–1958)

Townsend F. Dodd

First US Pilot of World War I to receive the DSM (1886–1919)

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Walt Houston

American football player

A

August Karl Reischauer

American missionary (1879-1971)

Raymond Wells

American film director and actor (1880-1941)

Mary Tracy Earle

American writer (1864-1955)

R

Red Corzine

American football player (1909-2003)

E

Esther Jane Skehan Earle

American botanist, botanical collector and illustrator (1867-1948)

W

Wayne Goddard

American football player and coach

F

Frances Ellen Baker

American mathematician (1902-1995)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Illinois

• Cobden
  5.7 mi away
• Cypress
  14.8 mi away
• East Cape Girardeau
  16 mi away
• Buncombe
  16.1 mi away · pop. 329
• Goreville
  17.6 mi away
• Carbondale
  18.9 mi away · pop. 21,857
• Karnak
  19.3 mi away
• Belknap
  20 mi away
• Gorham
  21.8 mi away
• Carterville
  23.7 mi away
• Crainville
  23.8 mi away
• Cambria
  24.1 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Jonesboro

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858

Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection · 1904

Earth science field trip guide leaflet

Illinois State Geological Survey · 1956

Geology of the Jonesboro 15-minute quadrangle, southwestern Illinois

W. John Nelson · 1995

Penrod family history

Penrod Family Committee. · 1970

Preliminary geological map of parts of the Alto Pass, Jonesboro, and Thebes Quadrangles, Union, Alexander, and Jackson counties

J. Marvin Weller · 1940

Illinois

Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection · 1910

Preliminary geologic map of parts of the Alto Pass, Jonesboro, and Thebes quadrangles, Union, Alexander and Jackson Counties

J. Marvin Weller · 1940

Civil War experiences, 1862-1865

Edward Mott Robbins · 1919

Search results from Open Library.