35-542: Vermilion County or Vermillion County is the name of several counties in the United States: Vermilion County, Illinois Vermillion County, Indiana Vermilion Parish, Louisiana See also [ edit ] County of Vermilion River , Alberta, Canada [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
70-433: A female householder with no husband present, 34.5% were non-families, and 29.8% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.96. The median age was 39.8 years. The median income for a household in the county was $ 39,456 and the median income for a family was $ 49,429. Males had a median income of $ 40,107 versus $ 30,104 for females. The per capita income for
105-768: A low of 17 °F (−8 °C) in January to a high of 86 °F (30 °C) in July, although a record low of −26 °F (−32 °C) was recorded in January ;1994 and a record high of 112 °F (44 °C) was recorded in July ;1936. Average monthly precipitation ranged from 1.99 inches (51 mm) inches in February to 4.70 inches (119 mm) inches in June. Danville Mass Transit provides public transit to
140-491: A number of extinct languages that are unclassified due to the lack of information on them. Many proposals have been made to relate some or all of these languages to each other, with varying degrees of success. The most widely reported is Joseph Greenberg 's Amerind hypothesis, which, however, nearly all specialists reject because of severe methodological flaws; spurious data; and a failure to distinguish cognation , contact , and coincidence. According to UNESCO , most of
175-632: A seat in the US Senate. Lincoln gave the speech in his stocking feet from the balcony of Dr. William Fithian, a prominent local physician. The Fithian home is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as the Vermilion County Museum; visitors can see Lincoln memorabilia including a bed in which Lincoln slept. The various stages in the evolution of Vermilion County are shown below. Vermilion County
210-561: Is a county in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Illinois , between the Indiana border and Champaign County . It was established in 1826 and was the 45th of Illinois' 102 counties. According to the 2020 United States census , it had a population of 74,188. It contains 21 incorporated settlements; the county seat and largest city is Danville . Vermilion County is part of the Danville, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, as well as
245-466: Is land and 2.91 square miles (7.5 km ) (or 0.32%) is water. The land in Vermilion County consists mostly of various forms of silt loam . Lake Vermilion , a man-made 1,000-acre (400 ha) reservoir, is the county's largest body of water, located northwest of Danville. It provides the city's culinary water, and also provides recreation opportunities. Several towns were established in
280-604: Is limited to certain regions where the languages are most spoken. Although sometimes enshrined in constitutions as official, the languages may be used infrequently in de facto official use. Examples are Quechua in Peru and Aymara in Bolivia, where in practice, Spanish is dominant in all formal contexts. In the North American Arctic region, Greenland in 2009 elected Kalaallisut as its sole official language. In
315-644: Is located along the eastern border of Illinois; its northern border is about 95 miles (153 km) south of Chicago . Vermilion County in Illinois and Vermillion County in Indiana are two of twenty-two counties or parishes in the United States with the same name to border each other across state lines. According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 901.28 square miles (2,334.3 km ), of which 898.37 square miles (2,326.8 km ) (or 99.68%)
350-577: The Illinois House of Representatives districts 104 and 105. Each township has a supervisor. The township board consists of the supervisor and four members elected at large from the township. The Vermilion County Board is controlled by Republicans . Larry Baughn (R) of Hoopeston serves as chairman. The Vermilion County Circuit Court is led by Judge Thomas O’Shaugnessy. 40°11′N 87°44′W / 40.18°N 87.74°W / 40.18; -87.74 Indigenous languages of
385-574: The Quechuan languages , Aymara , Guarani , and Nahuatl , which had millions of active speakers, to many languages with only several hundred speakers. After pre-Columbian times, several Indigenous creole languages developed in the Americas, based on European, Indigenous and African languages. The European colonizing nations and their successor states had widely varying attitudes towards Native American languages. In Brazil, friars learned and promoted
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#1732771855474420-787: The Tupi language . In many Spanish colonies, Spanish missionaries often learned local languages and culture in order to preach to the natives in their own tongue and relate the Christian message to their Indigenous religions. In the British American colonies, John Eliot of the Massachusetts Bay Colony translated the Bible into the Massachusett language , also called Wampanoag, or Natick (1661–1663); he published
455-561: The 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador ) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher Columbus ). Several Indigenous cultures of the Americas had also developed their own writing systems , the best known being the Maya script . The Indigenous languages of the Americas had widely varying demographics, from
490-461: The 2010 census. In Canada, 133,000 people reported speaking an Indigenous language at home in the 2011 census. In Greenland, about 90% of the population speaks Greenlandic , the most widely spoken Eskaleut language . Over a thousand known languages were spoken by various peoples in North and South America prior to their first contact with Europeans. These encounters occurred between the beginning of
525-585: The Americas The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous peoples . Over a thousand of these languages are still used today, while many more are now extinct . The Indigenous languages of the Americas are not all related to each other; instead, they are classified into a hundred or so language families and isolates , as well as
560-489: The Americas by European settlers and administrators, had become the official or national languages of modern nation-states of the Americas. Many Indigenous languages have become critically endangered, but others are vigorous and part of daily life for millions of people. Several Indigenous languages have been given official status in the countries where they occur, such as Guaraní in Paraguay . In other cases official status
595-584: The Catlin area; within a few years, the settlement grew to encompass several families and became known as "Butler's Point". In the southern part of the county, Henry Johnson built a cabin west of present-day Georgetown; this area was known as "Johnson's Point". The southern portion of the county was soon filled with small settlements. Most settlers in Vermilion County came from the American South, who had left because of their opposition to slavery . Some of
630-417: The Danville area with buses. Four railroad lines pass through or into the county, all intersecting in the Danville area; this results in many different railroad crossings throughout the city: The Vermilion Regional Airport is located northeast of Danville. For 2014, Vermilion County had a workforce of 35,643 people; 32,584 were employed and 3,059 (8.6%) were unemployed. There are 12 school districts in
665-599: The Indigenous languages of the Americas are critically endangered, and many are dormant (without native speakers but with a community of heritage-language users) or entirely extinct. The most widely spoken Indigenous languages are Southern Quechua (spoken primarily in southern Peru and Bolivia) and Guarani (centered in Paraguay, where it shares national language status with Spanish), with perhaps six or seven million speakers apiece (including many of European descent in
700-1166: The Office of the Commissioner of Indigenous Languages. The first Commissioner of Indigenous languages in Canada is Ronald E. Ignace . Colombia Colombia delegates local Indigenous language recognition to the department level according to the Colombian Constitution of 1991 . Bolivia Corrientes , Argentina Tacuru , Mato Grosso do Sul , Brazil Mercosur Peru (Official Language) Jujuy , Argentina Comunidad Andina Peru (Official Language) Comunidad Andina Belize Mexico Mexico Belize Mexico Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (De facto), Mexico Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (De facto), Mexico Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (De facto), Mexico Colombia ( Cauca , Nariño , Putumayo ) La Guajira , Colombia Mexico Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (De facto) , Mexico Mexico Honduras ( Gracias
735-606: The United States, the Navajo language is the most spoken Native American language, with more than 200,000 speakers in the Southwestern United States . The US Marine Corps recruited Navajo men, who were established as code talkers during World War II. In American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America (1997), Lyle Campbell lists several hypotheses for the historical origins of Amerindian languages. Roger Blench (2008) has advocated
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#1732771855474770-489: The case of Guarani). Only half a dozen others have more than a million speakers; these are Aymara of Bolivia and Nahuatl of Mexico, with almost two million each; the Mayan languages Kekchi , Quiché , and Yucatec of Guatemala and Mexico, with about 1 million apiece; and perhaps one or two additional Quechuan languages in Peru and Ecuador. In the United States, 372,000 people reported speaking an Indigenous language at home in
805-604: The county that provide primary and secondary education. There are two post-secondary educational institutions: Danville Area Community College , a public two-year community college, and Lakeview College of Nursing , a four-year private institution (both located in Danville). Based on the 2000 census, Vermilion County is part of the Illinois's 15th congressional district ; the Illinois Senate districts 52 and 53; and
840-472: The county was $ 20,218. About 14.6% of families and 18.7% of the population were below the poverty line , including 30.0% of those under age 18 and 9.1% of those age 65 or over. Vermilion County is in the humid continental climate region of the United States along with most of Illinois. Its Köppen climate classification is Dfa, meaning that it is cold, has no dry season, and has a hot summer. In recent years, average temperatures in Danville have ranged from
875-477: The county was 82.5% white, 13.0% black or African American, 0.7% Asian, 0.2% American Indian, 1.5% from other races, and 2.2% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 4.2% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 21.2% self-identified as American, 18.9% as German, 10.1% as Irish , and 9.1% as English . Of the 32,655 households, 31.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.7% were married couples living together, 14.7% had
910-449: The county which no longer survive. In some cases, the coming of the railroads helped to define the best locations for settlements, and as a result some existing towns were abandoned. When Lake Vermilion was created, the town of Denmark was flooded and now lies at the bottom of the reservoir. Township government was adopted in Vermilion County on November 5, 1850 , and eight townships were created: Eleven additional townships were created in
945-531: The early settlers were of the Religious Society of Friends , or Quakers. They founded the settlement of Vermilion Grove in the south part of the county, one of the county's first settlements and the site of the county's second public school. The county has strong ties to Abraham Lincoln , who practiced law in Danville from 1841 to 1859 with Ward Hill Lamon ; Lamon later served as Lincoln's bodyguard. Lincoln spoke in Danville during his 1858 campaign for
980-615: The first Bible printed in North America, the Eliot Indian Bible . The Europeans also suppressed use of Indigenous languages, establishing their own languages for official communications, destroying texts in other languages, and insisted that Indigenous people learn European languages in schools. As a result, Indigenous languages suffered from cultural suppression and loss of speakers. By the 18th and 19th centuries, Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, and Dutch, brought to
1015-502: The following decades: The Vermilion County Conservation District operates four parks: The Illinois Department of Natural Resources manages three areas in the county: As of the 2010 United States Census , there were 81,625 people, 32,655 households, and 21,392 families residing in the county. The population density was 90.9 inhabitants per square mile (35.1/km ). There were 36,318 housing units at an average density of 40.4 per square mile (15.6/km ). The racial makeup of
1050-537: The larger Champaign–Urbana–Danville Combined Statistical Area . Vermilion County is named after the Vermilion River , which passes through the county and empties into the Wabash River in Indiana near Cayuga ; the river was so named because of the color of the earth along its route. The area which became Vermilion County was under the flag of France from 1682 to 1763, as part of New France . It
1085-506: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vermilion_County&oldid=1006762168 " Category : United States county name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Vermilion County, Illinois Vermilion County
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1120-663: The theory of multiple migrations along the Pacific coast of peoples from northeastern Asia, who already spoke diverse languages. These proliferated in the New World. Countries like Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala, and Guyana recognize most Indigenous languages. Bolivia and Venezuela give all Indigenous languages official status. Canada, Argentina, and the U.S. allow provinces and states to decide. Brazil limits recognition to localities. Canada Bill C-91, passed in 2019, supports Indigenous languages through sustainable funding and
1155-485: Was an unorganized territory to the north and west which was attached to the county; Champaign and Iroquois counties were formed from part of this territory in 1833. The remainder was used to create Ford County in 1859, the last Illinois county to be formed. The county's saline springs were a strong attraction to early explorers; they were mentioned as early as 1801. Joseph Barron, an interpreter fluent in several Native American languages , stated in an affidavit that he
1190-473: Was present at the "Vermilion Salines" that year. The production required 100 gallons of water for one bushel of salt and proved to be profitable from the first run (1822–1829), when salt became less expensive and the venture was no longer economical. The area's first settlement was made in 1819 near these saline springs, by the Treat, Beckwith, and Whitcomb. James Butler, from Ohio, followed in 1820 and settled in
1225-745: Was taken over by Great Britain for fifteen years after the French and Indian War ; it then became part of the colonies after the Revolutionary War when the area was ceded to Virginia, titled "the Illinois County of Virginia". Later it was part of the Indiana Territory , then the Illinois Territory , and finally the state of Illinois. The county was created on January 18, 1826, from a portion of Edgar County. There
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