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Beardstown, Illinois

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The city of Beardstown is located in Cass County.

Beardstown is 130 feet [39.62 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Beardstown lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Both Indiana and Tennessee have communities that are also named Beardstown.

At the time of the 2000 Census, Beardstown had a population of 5,766 people<2> (or 42.13% of the total population of Cass County). The population of Beardstown represented 0.05% of the total of Illinois.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Beardstown had a population of 5,859 people. This is an increase of 1.61% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Beardstown.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
20085,859+1.61%-0.2% since 2007
20075,871+1.82%+0.57% since 2006
20065,838+1.25%+0.81% since 2005
20055,791+0.43% 
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20005,766The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Astoria   N15 mi [24.14 km]1,1245.78% decrease
 Bluffs   S18 mi [28.97 km]7016.28% decrease
 Chandlerville   E15 mi [24.14 km]6931.56% decrease
 Chapin   S16 mi [25.75 km]5684.05% decrease
 Meredosia   SW14 mi [22.53 km]9667.2% decrease
 Mount Sterling   W17 mi [27.36 km]1,9077.87% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Beardstown.




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People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Beardstown. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Beardstown:

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Beardstown? Please visit the Map Page for Beardstown.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Beardstown - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Beardstown.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Beardstown and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<4>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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