Census Data for Toms Prairie
As far as we can tell, Toms Prairie<1> has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Toms Prairie, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Golden Gate
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Fairfield
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Mount Erie
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jeffersonville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Jeffersonville is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeffersonville
- Burnt Prairie
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Albion
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Mill Shoals
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cisne
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Bone Gap
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Browns
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Sims
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- West Salem
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- West Salem is located in Edwards County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Salem
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- Johnsonville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Parkersburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Springerton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Wayne County ...
Toms Prairie is located in Wayne County<3>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Wayne County.
Miscellaneous Information for Toms Prairie ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Wayne County or the community of Toms Prairie:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Toms Prairie:
- GNIS ID for Toms Prairie: 419776
- GNIS ID for Wayne County: 424296
- GNIS ID for State of Illinois: 1779784
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Toms Prairie is located in Census Region #2 (the Midwest Region) and Division #3 (the East North-Central Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Toms Prairie.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Toms Prairie may originally have been Tom's Prairie. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Toms Prairie might be written as Tom Prairie. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Toms Prairie. |
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| <3> | If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Wayne, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |