[4] The county is bounded on the north by Sangamon River, and intersected by the south fork of that stream.

[6] As of the 2010 United States census, there were 34,800 people, 14,055 households, and 9,211 families residing in the county.

[13] In terms of ancestry, 21.9% were German, 12.7% were Irish, 10.6% were American, and 9.9% were English.

[15] Christian County is divided into these seventeen townships: Like most of German-settled Central Illinois, Christian County was solidly Democratic until Woodrow Wilson’s response to German defeat in World War I turned the county over to the Republican Party in its 1920, 1924 and 1928 landslides.

The county remained Democratic-leaning through the rest of the twentieth century, only voting Republican in landslide wins.