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ALORTON

Specialty Definition: Alorton, Illinois

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Alorton is a village located in St. Clair County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 2,749.

Geography

Alorton is located at 38°35'3" North, 90°7'4" West (38.584094, -90.117720)¹. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 4.6 km² (1.8 mi²). 4.6 km² (1.8 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 2,749 people, 886 households, and 670 families residing in the village. The population density is 596.3/km² (1,545.3/mi²). There are 1,000 housing units at an average density of 216.9/km² (562.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 1.56% White, 97.09% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.25% from other races, and 0.95% from two or more races. 0.73% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 886 households out of which 45.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 23.5% are married couples living together, 46.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.3% are non-families. 19.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.05 and the average family size is 3.43. In the village the population is spread out with 39.3% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 15.7% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 26 years. For every 100 females there are 87.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 78.5 males. The median income for a household in the village is $17,860, and the median income for a family is $19,833. Males have a median income of $21,579 versus $20,188 for females. The per capita income for the village is $8,777. 47.3% of the population and 41.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 57.8% are under the age of 18 and 26.1% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Alorton, Illinois."

Cities: ALORTON

1. Alorton, IL (village, FIPS 958)
Location: 38.58560 N, 90.11509 W
Population (1990): 2960 (985 housing units)
Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 62207
Country: USA

Misspellings: ALORTON

Misspellings
	"ALORTON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Albritton, Alfoxton, Allorto, Isotron, Oporton, Owlerton. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: ALORTON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ortolan.
	Words within the letters "a-l-n-o-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: ratoon.
	-2 letters: loran, notal, talon, tolan, tolar, tonal, trona.
	-3 letters: alto, loan, loon, loot, lorn, lota, nolo, nota, onto, oral, rant, rato, roan, root, rota, rotl, roto, tarn, taro, tola, tool, toon, tora, torn, toro.
	-4 letters: alt, ant, art, lar, lat, loo, lot, noo, nor, not, oar, oat, oot, ora, ort, ran, rat, rot.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-n-o-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: colorant, ortolans.
	+2 letters: colorants, contralto, tonsorial, torsional.
	+3 letters: coloration, confrontal, contraltos, floriation, horizontal, iconolatry, inoculator, microtonal, monitorial, morulation, orthogonal, pollinator, protonemal, relocation, rotational, toleration.
	+4 letters: aldosterone, anovulatory, cartoonlike, chlorinator, coleopteran, colorations, conciliator, condolatory, confrontals, consolatory, correlation, defloration, elaboration, exploration, floriations, formulation, holothurian, horizontals, inoculators, melioration, monocrystal, morulations, narratology, neocortical, nomenclator, nonrational, nontemporal, nontropical, notochordal, operational, orthonormal, percolation, periodontal, pollinators, probational, promotional, protoplanet, relocations, sporulation, tolerations, torsionally, trichomonal, zooplankter.
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Alternative Orthography: ALORTON

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001100 01001111 01010010 01010100 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 004F 0052 0054 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Cities
2. Derivations
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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