USA
Midwest
Illinois

Macon

Macon County is a county located in the U.S. state of . According to the 2020 United States census, it had a population of 103,998. Its county seat and most populous city is . Macon County comprises the Decatur, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Tap on a place
to explore it
maconcounty.illinois.gov
Wikipedia
Photo: Archedamian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: County with 111,000 residents
  • Description: county in Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Macon County”, “Macon County, IL”, and “Macon County, Illinois”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Transfer House and Decatur Memorial Hospital.

Historic building
Photo: Ander107, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a historic building located in Central Park in , . Built in 1896, the building originally served as a transfer point for Decatur's electric streetcar system.

Hospital
Photo: Dmhcares, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, is a Decatur, Illinois affiliate of Memorial Medical Center and is a 300-bed, not-for-profit, community hospital founded in 1916.

Courthouse
The is a government building in , the county seat of Macon County, , . Completed in 1940, it is the fourth courthouse in the county's history.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Decatur.

Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in Macon county, . There are many examples of Frank Lloyd Wright's influence on the Prairie Style Architecture in .

Macon

Latitude
39.8455° or 39° 50′ 44″ north
Longitude
-88.9602° or 88° 57′ 37″ west
Population
111,000
Elevation
676 feet (206 metres)
Open location code
86FHR2WQ+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316952664
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4243719
Wiki­data ID
Q115324
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Macon from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Macon” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Macon County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ماكون”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه ماكون، إلينوي”
  • Armenian: “Մեյկոն շրջան”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Macon”
  • Basque: “Macon konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Macon County, Illinois”
  • Bavarian: “Macon County”
  • Bishnupriya: “মেকন কাউন্টি, ইলিনয়স”
  • Bishnupriya: “মেকন কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Мейкън”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Macon”
  • Cebuano: “Macon County”
  • Chechen: “Мейкон (гуо, Иллинойс)”
  • Chechen: “Мейкон”
  • Chinese: “Macon Kūn”
  • Chinese: “梅肯县”
  • Chinese: “梅肯縣”
  • Chinese: “梅肯郡”
  • Dutch: “Macon County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Macon”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Macon”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Makona”
  • Esperanto: “Macon County”
  • Estonian: “Maconi maakond”
  • Finnish: “Maconin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Macon”
  • French: “Comté de Macon”
  • French: “Macon County”
  • Georgian: “მეიკონის ოლქი”
  • German: “Macon County”
  • Gilaki: “مکن ٚ شأرستان (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “مکن ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז מייקון”
  • Hungarian: “Macon megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Macon”
  • Italian: “contea di Macon”
  • Italian: “Contea di Macon”
  • Italian: “Macon County”
  • Japanese: “メイコン・カウンティ”
  • Japanese: “メイコン郡”
  • Korean: “메이컨군”
  • Latin: “Macon Comitatus”
  • Low German: “Macon County”
  • Mazanderani: “مکن شهرستان (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “مکن شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Macon Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Macon Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Macon County i Illinois”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Macon County”
  • Norwegian: “Macon County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان مکن، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان مکن”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Macon”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Macon”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Macon”
  • Portuguese: “Macon County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Macon, Illinois”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Macon”
  • Russian: “Мейкон”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Macon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Macon County”
  • Serbian: “Округ Мејкон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Macon County, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Macon County”
  • Slovenian: “Macon County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Macon”
  • Spanish: “condado de Macon”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Macon”
  • Spanish: “Macon County”
  • Swedish: “Macon County, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “Macon County”
  • Tatar: “Мейкон (округ, Иллинойс)”
  • Tatar: “Мейкон”
  • Turkish: “Macon County, IL”
  • Turkish: “Macon County, Ill.”
  • Turkish: “Macon County, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Macon County”
  • Turkish: “Macon ilçesi, IL”
  • Turkish: “Macon ilçesi, Ill.”
  • Turkish: “Macon ilçesi, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Macon ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Мейкон”
  • Urdu: “ماکون کاؤنٹی، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “ماکون کاؤنٹی”
  • Venetian: “contea de Macon”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Macon, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Macon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Macon, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Macon”
  • Welsh: “Macon County, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Macon County”
  • Western Panjabi: “میکن کاؤنٹی”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Macon”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Longview Place and H &K Trailer Court.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Hieronymus Mueller Museum and Central United Methodist Church.

Illinois: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Chicago, Springfield, Rockford, and Loop.

Curious Places to Discover

Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Macon”. Photo: Archedamian, CC BY-SA 3.0.