Welcome to Johnson County Illinois Print


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What a great place to be right now!

Johnson County has so much to offer its residents, visitors, and business community.

Located in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest in Southernmost Illinois, Johnson County is home to the regions best opportunities to live, learn, work, and play.

With all the amenities of big city living within 30 miles, there is no reason not to want to be in Johnson County, Illinois.  
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The Cache River Wetlands Print

A Place to Explore this Spring
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The days are getting longer; birds fill the morning with song; frozen ponds are now open to rain and the frogs are waking up --- Spring is in the air! What better place to look, listen, and experience Spring than the Cache River Wetlands.
 
The Cache is a special place that highlights nature. It is also a unique place that claims some of the oldest living trees east of the Mississippi River and harbors 91% of Illinois' high-quality swamp habitat. This rich variety of habitats provides homes to a rich variety of plants and animals seldom matched in the Midwest. Over 250 species of birds are found in the Cache; red-headed and pileated woodpeckers and the state-endangered Barn owl; snowy egrets, yellow and black crowned night herons, little blue herons, hooded mergansers, wood ducks are just a few noted species in addition to 30 species of warblers found here including those with southern affinities such as the yellow-throated, hooded, prairie, and prothonotary warblers. Songbirds are abundant in addition to other resident wildlife including deer, squirrels, foxes, mink, as well as, bobcats, river otters, and a host of frogs and toads, turtles and snakes.
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The Early Days of Johnson County Print

Johnson County, Illinois was established on September 14, 1812, from Randolph County in the Illinois Territory. (By proclamation, Territorial Record of Illinois, pg. 26). At that time, Johnson County covered most of the northwest portion and all of the west and extreme southern portions of Southern Illinois. This area included the present day counties of Alexander, Hardin, Jackson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, and Union. 

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Johnson County Genealogical & Historical Society Print

 
March Meeting of JCGHS

The March meeting of the Johnson County Genealogical & Historical Society will be a joint meeting with the Illinois Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association.  Cherokee family research will be the topic.  Come join us on Sunday, March 21 at 2:30PM in the Community Room of the Vienna Library.

Levi Casey - Pioneer of Johnson County

Levi Casey and his wife, the former Mary Sherrell, brought their ten children by ox-cart into Bloomfield Township from Tennessee in 1808.  Here they settled near a large spring which has been known for many years as Casey's Spring.  Some of their children were: Rachel, Mary, Jane, Randolph, Patsy, Belva, Susanna, and another son who died at eighteen and was said to be the first person buried in Casey's Spring Cemetery, one of the oldest in the county.  The burial was in 1816.

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