Dix, IL

Dix is a village in Jefferson County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 469 residents. Dix is part of the Mount Vernon Micropolitan Statistical Area. ), who came from Rome, New York, around 1830. The short version is that Dix carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Dix: its past remains attached to the places people use now. One of them established a post office called "Jordan's Prairie", the name already given to the grassland to the south. Dix is located in northern Jefferson County. Illinois Route 37 is the village's Main Street, leading south 9 miles to Mount Vernon, the county seat, and north 13 miles to Salem.