{"id":2841,"date":"2023-04-18T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T10:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2026-08-18T00:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T00:28:37","slug":"morgan-county-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/morgan-county-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan County, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan County is a county in Illinois, United States, on the west-central prairie between the Illinois River and the Mississippi River bluffs. It had a population of 32,915 at the 2020 census and covers 572 square miles (1,480 km2) centred near 39\u00b043\u2032N 90\u00b012\u2032W.<\/p>\n

Jacksonville is the county seat, and its postal code is 62650. The county holds 2 cities, 8 villages, 2 census-designated places and several unincorporated communities, and sits in the Central time zone.<\/p>\n

Towns & Villages in Morgan County<\/h2>\n

Morgan County has 12 named places with their own ZIP or census recognition, plus a handful of smaller unincorporated crossroads carried over from historical listings. Jacksonville, the seat, is the only city with a population above 15,000; every other place is a village, a census-designated place (CDP), or an unincorporated hamlet with no local government of its own.<\/p>\n

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Place<\/th>\nType<\/th>\nPop.<\/th>\nZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Jacksonville<\/td>\nCity · seat<\/td>\n18,530<\/td>\n62650 \/ 62651<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
South Jacksonville<\/td>\nVillage<\/td>\n3,505<\/td>\n62650<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Waverly<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n1,341<\/td>\n62692<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexander<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n420<\/td>\n62601<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Murrayville<\/td>\nVillage<\/td>\n604<\/td>\n62668<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Franklin<\/td>\nVillage<\/td>\n683<\/td>\n62638<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Meredosia<\/td>\nVillage<\/td>\n860<\/td>\n62665<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chapin<\/td>\nVillage<\/td>\n605<\/td>\n62628<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Concord<\/td>\nVillage<\/td>\n359<\/td>\n62631<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Woodson<\/td>\nVillage<\/td>\n167<\/td>\n62695<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Literberry<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n62660<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lynnville<\/td>\nVillage<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The old county list also carried Arcadia, Arnold, Bethel, Centerville, Clements, Joy Prairie, Markham, Nortonville, Orleans, Pisgah, Portuguese Hill, Prentice, Rees, Rohrer, Shady Acres, Sinclair, Strawns Crossing and Yatesville as unincorporated communities and rural crossroads — small settlements without their own ZIP code or census designation, most of them clustered along the county’s older stagecoach and rail routes. Yeomans appears in older gazetteers as a Jacksonville-area rail siding rather than a standing community and is not carried forward here for lack of a verifiable source.<\/p>\n

ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n