Census Data for Ward
As far as we can tell, Ward 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 Ward, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- De Soto
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Elkville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Bush
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Bush is located in Williamson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush
- Hurst
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Dowell
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Royalton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Vergennes
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cambria
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Carbondale
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Murphysboro
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Colp
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Carterville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
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- Zeigler
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Crainville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Crainville is located in Williamson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crainville
- Du Quoin
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Du Quoin is located in Perry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Du Quoin
Jackson County ...
Ward is located in Jackson County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Jackson County.
Miscellaneous Information for Ward ...
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 Jackson County or the community of Ward:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Ward:
- GNIS ID for Ward: 423286
- GNIS ID for Jackson County: 424240
- GNIS ID for State of Illinois: 1779784
- The FIPS Codes ...
- An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
- State Code: 17 (Illinois)
- County Code: 077 (Jackson County)
- Place Code: 78790 (Ward)
- State & County Code: 17/077 (Illinois / Jackson County)
- State & Place Code: 17/78790 (Illinois / Ward)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Ward 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 Ward.
Footnotes ...
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