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Dixon, Illinois

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The city of Dixon is located in Lee County and is the county seat.

Dixon is 210 feet [64.01 m] above sea level.<1>

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

Communities that are also named Dixon can be found in:

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At the time of the 2000 Census, Dixon had a population of 15,941 people<3> (or 44.21% of the total population of Lee County). The population of Dixon represented 0.13% of the total of Illinois, making it the state's 140th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Dixon had a population of 15,033 people. This is a decrease of 5.7% 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 Dixon.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
200815,033-5.7%+0.66% since 2007
200714,934-6.32%+0.44% since 2006
200614,869-6.72%+0.18% since 2005
200514,843-6.89% 
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200015,941The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Amboy   SE9 mi [14.48 km]2,5740.51% increase
 Ashton   E13 mi [20.92 km]1,1662.1% increase
 Franklin Grove   E9 mi [14.48 km]1,0004.94% decrease
 Leaf River   N19 mi [30.58 km]5412.52% decrease
 Milledgeville   NW17 mi [27.36 km]9308.46% decrease
 Mount Morris   N14 mi [22.53 km]3,0782.16% increase

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

Websites for Dixon

Official Website:   www.ci.dixon.il.us/
   
Chamber of Commerce:   www.dixonillinoischamber.com/

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Dixon or Lee County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.




Search for Local Businesses

Google's 'Search-by-Location' is a very useful tool for people who might be 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) Dixon. 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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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Dixon? Please visit the Map Page for Dixon.


Footnotes

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

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<2>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Dixon, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Dixon.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Dixon and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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