Map of New Haven village, Illinois

New Haven is a village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States, along the Little Wabash River near its mouth at the Wabash River. The population was 433 at the 2010 United States Census, down from 477 at the 2000 census.

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History

Before the New Haven vicinity was settled, it was inhabited by multiple indigenous cultures. Some countryside southeast of the village near the Wabash was formerly the location of a village of a Late Woodland people known as the “Duffy Complex”; the location is now an archaeological site known as the Duffy site.

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Geography

New Haven is located in the northeast corner of Gallatin County at 37°54′26″N 88°7′37″W / 37.90722°N 88.12694°W / 37.90722; -88.12694 (37.907113, -88.126954). It is bordered to the north by White County, and the Little Wabash River forms part of the northern border. Illinois Route 141 passes through the northern part of the village, leading east 5 miles (8 km) to the Indiana border at the Wabash River and 13 miles (21 km) to Mount Vernon, Indiana, and west 12 miles (19 km) to U.S. Route 45 northwest of Omaha, Illinois. Shawneetown, the Gallatin County seat, is 17 miles (27 km) to the south.

According to the 2010 census, New Haven has a total area of 1.258 square miles (3.26 km), of which 1.23 square miles (3.19 km) (or 97.77%) is land and 0.028 square miles (0.07 km) (or 2.23%) is water.

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