Plattville, Illinois | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Image Map1: | Illinois in United States (US48).svg |
Map Caption1: | Location of Illinois in the United States |
Coordinates: | 41.5347°N -88.3722°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Illinois |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Kendall |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Lisbon |
Established Title: | Founded |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | June McCord (acting) |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 5.85 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 2.26 |
Area Land Km2: | 5.85 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 2.26 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
Elevation Ft: | 600 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 220 |
Population Density Km2: | 37.60 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 97.39 |
Timezone1: | CST |
Utc Offset1: | -6 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 60560 |
Area Codes: | 630 / 331/815 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 17-60391 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 2399688 |
Blank2 Name Sec2: | Wikimedia Commons |
Footnotes: | [2] |
Plattville is a village in Lisbon Township, Kendall County, Illinois, United States, west of Joliet. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 242.[3] The community was established in 1860 and named after founder Daniel Platt,[4] who first built a home there in 1834 on the Frink and Walker stagecoach route between Chicago and Ottawa.[5]
Plattville was officially incorporated in March 2006[6] and had an estimated population of 245 in 2007.[7] Plattville's first mayor was George "Jerry" Friel, who died in 2009. He was instrumental in his role in incorporating the village of Plattville in the mid-2000s, and spent some of his own money to file the town's incorporation papers.[8]
Plattville is in south-central Kendall County, west of the center of Joliet but less than west of the city's western limits. The village is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Yorkville lies to the north, and Lisbon lies to the southwest.
According to the 2010 census, Plattville has a total area of 2.27sqmi, all land.[9]
In 2010, the village was 94.6 percent White, 5 percent Hispanic, and 0.4 percent Two or more races.