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{{Short description|County in Illinois, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=June 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox U.S. county
| county = Gallatin County
| state = Illinois
| ex image = File:Gallatin County Courthouse, New Shawneetown.jpg
| ex image cap = [[Gallatin County Courthouse (Illinois)|Gallatin County Courthouse]] in Shawneetown
| founded year     = 1812
| founded date     =
| seat wl          = Shawneetown
| largest city wl  = Shawneetown
| area_total_sq_mi = 328
| area_land_sq_mi  = 323
| area_water_sq_mi = 5.1
| area percentage  = 1.6
| census yr        = 2020
| pop              = 4946
| pop_est_as_of    = 2024
| population_est   = 4690 {{loss}}<ref>{{cite web |title=County Population Totals and Components of Change: 2020–2024 |url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-counties-total.html |website=United States Census Bureau |publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce |date=March 2025 |access-date=August 31, 2025}}</ref>
| density_sq_mi    = auto
| time zone        = Central
| district         = 12th
| named for        = [[Albert Gallatin]] |website=https://gallatinco.illinois.gov/}}

'''Gallatin County''' is a [[County (United States)|county]] located in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Illinois]]. According to the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], it has a population of 4,946, making it the third-least populous county in Illinois. Its [[county seat]] is [[Shawneetown, Illinois|Shawneetown]].<ref name="GR6">{{Cite web |title=Find a County |url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 |access-date=June 7, 2011 |publisher=National Association of Counties}}</ref> It is located in the southern portion of Illinois known locally as [[Little Egypt (region)|Little Egypt]]. Located at the mouth of the [[Wabash River]], Gallatin County, along with neighboring Posey County, Indiana, and Union County, Kentucky form the tri-point of the [[Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area]].

==History==
Salt production served as the state's first major industry in the early 19th century. Saltworks developed first by Native Americans, and the French had settled at the Great Salt Spring on the south side of the [[Saline River (Illinois)|Saline River]], about five miles downstream from [[Equality, Illinois|Equality]]. Beginning in 1803, salt works were also developed at Half Moon Lick, southwest of Equality on the north side of the Saline River. Half Moon Lick is now on private land, but the [[Illinois Salines|Great Salt Springs]] are on public lands in the [[Shawnee National Forest]], about one mile west of the Saline River bridge across [[Illinois Route 1]] on Salt Well Road.<ref>Jon Musgrave. 2004, Rev. ed. 2005. ''[http://www.illinoishistory.com/books Slaves, Salt, Sex & Mr. Crenshaw: The Real Story of the Old Slave House and America's Reverse Underground Railroad]''. Marion, Ill.: IllinoisHistory.com. 57-65.</ref>

Gallatin County was organized in 1812 from land formerly in [[Randolph County, Illinois|Randolph County]]. It was named for [[Albert Gallatin]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gannett, Henry |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ |title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States |publisher=Govt. Print. Off. |year=1905 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n132 133]}}</ref> who was then Secretary of the Treasury. The bank at Shawneetown was the first in Illinois. It was originally in the [[John Marshall House Museum|John Marshall House]], which has been rebuilt and serves as the museum of the Gallatin County Historical Society. This should not be confused with the  [[Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site|State Bank of Illinois building]], which is a state historic site a block away in [[Shawneetown, Illinois|Old Shawneetown]]

<gallery>
File:Gallatin County Illinois 1812.png|Gallatin County created in the [[Illinois Territory]] period between 1812 and 1815
File:Gallatin County Illinois 1815.png|Gallatin between 1815 and 1816
File:Gallatin County Illinois 1816.png|Gallatin between 1816 and 1818, including unorganized territory (formerly part of Johnson County) temporarily attached to it.<ref>White, Jesse.  ''Origin and Evolution of Illinois Counties.'' State of Illinois, March 2010.  [http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/publications/pdf_publications/ipub15.pdf]</ref>
File:Gallatin County Illinois 1818.png|Gallatin between 1818 and 1847
File:Gallatin County Illinois 1847.png|Gallatin in 1847, when a cession to Hardin and the creation of Saline County reduced it to its current territory
</gallery>

==Politics==
Although Illinois was legally a [[free state (United States)|free state]], an exemption in the [[Illinois Constitution]] allowed slavery at the Illinois Salines and other salt springs near Shawneetown in Gallatin County. The slave-operated salines contributed one-third of the new state's yearly revenue.<ref name=Myers>{{cite journal|last=Myers|first=Jacob W.|title=History of the Gallatin Salines|journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society|url=http://www.illinoishistory.com/1922-gallatinsalines.html|accessdate=January 23, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Attractions|url=http://www.discoversoutheasternil.com/template.php?page=attractions.php|work=Discover Southeastern Illinois|publisher=Gallatin County Tourism Committee|accessdate=January 23, 2014}}</ref> The law allowed African slaves to be imported to the site until 1825, when the exemption expired. However, [[indentured servitude]] at the springs continued past this point. Salt production continued until 1870, when competition from [[West Virginia]] salt mines drove the springs out of business.<ref>{{cite journal|last=McFarland|first=Joe|title=When Salt was Gold|journal=Outdoor Illinois|date=October 2009|pages=11–13|url=http://www.dnr.illinois.gov/oi/documents/oct09salt.pdf|accessdate=January 23, 2014}}</ref>

As the most culturally Southern of all Illinois counties, Gallatin County was pro-[[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and even provided a few volunteers to the Confederate Army. It then became solidly Democratic for the next century and a third, voting Republican only in the GOP landslides of 1920, 1952, 1972 and 1980. Even in those four elections, no Republican candidate received more than [[Richard Nixon]]’s 53.7 percent in his 3,000-plus-county 1972 triumph.

Since 2000, Gallatin County has followed the same political trajectory as [[United States presidential elections in Tennessee|Tennessee]], [[United States presidential elections in Missouri|Missouri]], [[United States presidential elections in Kentucky|Kentucky]], [[United States presidential elections in West Virginia|West Virginia]] and [[Appalachia]]n regions of adjacent states, whereby the Democratic Party’s liberal views on social issues have produced dramatic swings to the Republican Party amongst its almost entirely Southern white population.<ref>Cohn, Nate; [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/southern-whites-loyalty-to-gop-nearing-that-of-blacks-to-democrats.html ‘Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats’], ''[[New York Times]]'', April 24, 2014</ref> Over the five elections from 2000 to 2016, Gallatin County has seen a swing of 84 percentage points to the Republican Party – an average of 17 percentage points per election – so that [[Hillary Clinton]]’s 24.3 percent vote share in 2016 is barely half the worst Democratic percentage from before 2010. However, despite its sharp rightward turn, it followed the wave in 2008 within the state that elected [[Barack Obama]] president, who remains the last Democrat to win the county in a presidential election.

In [[Illinois gubernatorial election, 1994|1994]], Gallatin County was the only one in the state to vote for the Democratic candidate for governor. It voted for the Democrat in every gubernatorial election from 1924 to 2006, finally flipping in 2010 and then voting Republican again in 2014 and 2018.

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==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|328|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|323|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|5.1|sqmi}} (1.6%) is water.<ref name="census-density">{{Cite web |title=Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/GCTPH1.CY10/0500000US17059 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212201341/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/GCTPH1.CY10/0500000US17059 |archive-date=February 12, 2020 |access-date=July 11, 2015 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

The [[Wabash River|Wabash]] and [[Ohio River|Ohio]] rivers join in the northeastern part of the county. The Saline River is a major drainage in the county, and it feeds into the Ohio River.

===Climate and weather===
{{climate chart
|[[Shawneetown, Illinois]]
|21|41|3.48
|24|47|3.68
|33|57|4.71
|42|68|4.75
|52|76|5.02
|60|84|4.19
|65|87|4.22
|63|87|3.49
|55|80|3.24
|43|70|3.22
|34|57|4.41
|25|46|4.29
| float      = right
| units      = imperial
| clear      = both
| source     = The Weather Channel<ref name="weather">{{Cite web |title=Monthly Averages for Shawneetown, Illinois |url=http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USIL1075 |access-date=January 27, 2011 |publisher=The Weather Channel}}</ref>}}
In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Shawneetown have ranged from a low of {{convert|21|°F}} in January to a high of {{convert|87|°F}} in July, although a record low of {{convert|-22|°F}} was recorded in January 1994 and a record high of {{convert|104|°F}} was recorded in August 2007.  Average monthly precipitation ranged from {{convert|3.22|in}} in October to {{convert|5.02|in}} in May.<ref name="weather" />

===Transit===
* [[Rides Mass Transit District]]

===Major highways===
* [[File:US 45.svg|20px]] [[U.S. Highway 45]]
* [[File:Illinois 1.svg|20px]] [[Illinois Route 1]]
* [[File:Illinois 13.svg|20px]] [[Illinois Route 13]]
* [[File:Illinois 141.svg|20px]] [[Illinois Route 141]]
* [[File:Illinois 142.svg|20px]] [[Illinois Route 142]]

===Adjacent counties===
* [[White County, Illinois|White County]] - north
* [[Posey County, Indiana|Posey County]], [[Indiana]] - northeast
* [[Union County, Kentucky|Union County]], [[Kentucky]] - east
* [[Hardin County, Illinois|Hardin County]] - south
* [[Saline County, Illinois|Saline County]] - west
* [[Hamilton County, Illinois|Hamilton County]] - northwest

===National protected area===
* [[Shawnee National Forest]] (part)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1820= 3155
|1830= 7405
|1840= 10760
|1850= 5448
|1860= 8055
|1870= 11134
|1880= 12861
|1890= 14935
|1900= 15836
|1910= 14628
|1920= 12856
|1930= 10091
|1940= 11414
|1950= 9818
|1960= 7638
|1970= 7418
|1980= 7590
|1990= 6909
|2000= 6445
|2010= 5589
|2020= 4946
|estyear=2024
|estimate=4690
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2024">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.html|title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates Tables|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=July 24, 2025}}</ref>
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Decennial Census |url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html |access-date=July 5, 2014 |publisher=United States Census Bureau}}</ref><br />1790-1960<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historical Census Browser |url=http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu |access-date=July 5, 2014 |publisher=University of Virginia Library}}</ref> 1900-1990<ref>{{Cite web |title=Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990 |url=https://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/il190090.txt |access-date=July 5, 2014 |publisher=United States Census Bureau}}</ref><br />1990-2000<ref>{{Cite web |title=Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000 |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327165705/http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2010 |access-date=July 5, 2014 |publisher=United States Census Bureau}}</ref> 2010-2017<ref name="QF">{{Cite web |title=State & County QuickFacts |url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/17/17059.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606163027/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/17/17059.html |archive-date=June 6, 2011 |access-date=July 5, 2014 |publisher=United States Census Bureau}}</ref>
}}
{{Stack|[[File:USA Gallatin County, Illinois age pyramid.svg|thumb|221px|left|2000 census age pyramid for Gallatin County]]}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Gallatin County, Illinois – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}}</small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 1980<ref name=1980Census>{{Cite web|title=1980 Census of Population - General Population Characteristics - Illinois- Table 14 - Persons by Race and Table 16 (p. 18-28) - Total Persons and Spanish Origin Persons by Type of Spanish Origin and Race (p. 29-39)|url=https://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1980a_ilAB-03.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|page=}}</ref>
!Pop 1990<ref name=1990Census>{{Cite web|title=1990 Census of Population - General Population Characteristics - Illinois - Table 6 - Race and Hispanic Orogin|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/cp-2/cp-2-15-1.pdf|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2000<ref name=2000CensusP004>{{Cite web|title=P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Gallatin County, Illinois|url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=050XX00US17059&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Gallatin County, Illinois|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=050XX00US17059&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!style="background-color: #ffffb3;" | Pop 2020<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Gallatin County, Illinois|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=050XX00US17059&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date= }}</ref>
!% 1980
!% 1990
!% 2000
!% 2010
!style="background-color: #ffffb3;" |% 2020
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|7,504
|6,830
|6,308
|5,427
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4,683
|98.87%
|98.86%
|97.87%
|97.10%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |94.68%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|28
|42
|16
|12
|style='background: #ffffe6; |25
|0.37%
|0.61%
|0.25%
|0.21%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.51%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|6
|10
|30
|14
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5
|0.08%
|0.14%
|0.47%
|0.25%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.10%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|5
|11
|4
|5
|style='background: #ffffe6; |23
|0.07%
|0.16%
|0.06%
|0.09%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.47%
|-
|[[Native Hawaiian]] or [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|x <ref>included in the Asian category in the 1980 Census</ref>
|x <ref>included in the Asian category in the 1990 Census</ref>
|2
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|x
|x
|0.03%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|Other race]] alone (NH)
|2
|0
|0
|1
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3
|0.03%
|0.00%
|0.00%
|0.02%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.06%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed race or Multiracial]] (NH)
|x <ref>not an option in the 1980 Census</ref>
|x <ref>not an option in the 1990 Census</ref>
|29
|64
|style='background: #ffffe6; |154
|x
|x
|0.45%
|1.15%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3.11%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|45
|16
|56
|66
|style='background: #ffffe6; |53
|0.59%
|0.23%
|0.87%
|1.18%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.07%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''7,590'''
|'''6,909'''
|'''6,445'''
|'''5,589'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''4,946 '''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}
 
As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], there were 4,946&nbsp;people, 2,155&nbsp;households, and 3,764&nbsp;families residing in the county<ref name="Gallatin County, Illinois 2020 Census">{{cite web |title=Gallatin County, Illinois |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Gallatin_County,_Illinois?g=050XX00US17059}}</ref>
The racial makeup of the county was 95.03% white, 0.102% American Indian, 0.526% black or African American, 0.486% Asian, 0.445% from other races, and 3.013% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 1.072% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 18.1% were [[Germans|German]], 13.6% were [[Irish people|Irish]], 14% were [[English people|English]].<ref name="Gallatin County Census">{{cite web |title=Gallatin County Census |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Gallatin_County,_Illinois?g=050XX00US17059}}</ref>

The median income for a household in the county was $51,868 and the median income for a family was $65,833.<ref name="Gallatin County, Il Census">{{cite web |title=Gallatin County, Il Census |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Gallatin_County,_Illinois?g=050XX00US17059}}</ref>

==Communities==

===City===
* [[Shawneetown, Illinois|Shawneetown]]

===Villages===
* [[Equality, Illinois|Equality]]
* [[Junction, Illinois|Junction]]
* [[New Haven, Illinois|New Haven]]
* [[Old Shawneetown, Illinois|Old Shawneetown]]
* [[Omaha, Illinois|Omaha]]
* [[Ridgway, Illinois|Ridgway]]

===Unincorporated communities===
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Cottonwood, Illinois|Cottonwood]]
* [[Elba, Illinois|Elba]]
* [[Kedron, Illinois|Kedron]]
* [[Lawler, Illinois|Lawler]]
{{div col end}}

===Townships===
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
* [[Asbury Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|Asbury]]
* [[Bowlesville Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|Bowlesville]]
* [[Eagle Creek Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|Eagle Creek]]
* [[Equality Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|Equality]]
* [[Gold Hill Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|Gold Hill]]
* [[New Haven Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|New Haven]]
* [[North Fork Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|North Fork]]
* [[Omaha Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|Omaha]]
* [[Ridgway Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|Ridgway]]
* [[Shawnee Township, Gallatin County, Illinois|Shawnee]]
{{div col end}}

==See also==
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Gallatin County, Illinois]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* 1887. ''History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson Counties, Illinois''. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co.
* Musgrave, Jon, ed. 2002. [http://www.illinoishistory.com/books ''Handbook of Old Gallatin County and Southeastern Illinois'']. Marion, Ill.: [http://www.illinoishistory.com/ IllinoisHistory.com]. 464 pages.
* Musgrave, Jon. 2004, Rev. ed. 2005. [http://www.illinoishistory.com/books ''Slaves, Salt, Sex & Mr. Crenshaw: The Real Story of the Old Slave House and America's Reverse Underground R.R.'']. Marion, Ill.: [http://www.illinoishistory.com/ IllinoisHistory.com]. 608 pages.
* Waggoner, Horace Q., interviewer. 1978. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110609051003/http://www.uis.edu/archives/memoirs/LAWLERL.pdf Lucille Lawler Memoir]" Shawneetown Bank Project. Sangamon State University. Springfield, Ill.

==External links==
* History of Gallatin County http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilgallat/gch.htm
* History of Gallatin County and its Communities https://web.archive.org/web/20060413162609/http://www.lth6.k12.il.us/schools/gallatin/communities.htm

{{Geographic Location
| Centre    = Gallatin County, Illinois
| North     = [[White County, Illinois|White County]]
| Northeast = [[Posey County, Indiana]]
| East      = [[Union County, Kentucky]]
| Southeast =
| South     = [[Hardin County, Illinois|Hardin County]]
| Southwest =
| West      = [[Saline County, Illinois|Saline County]]
| Northwest = [[Hamilton County, Illinois|Hamilton County]]
}}
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