Named on the behalf of Nathaniel Pope, the Pope County was established in 1816 and has an approximate area of 374 sq mi. It has a total population of over 4.4K with a rich mix of White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others including around 1.7K households and 1.2K families. Golconda is the county seat of Pope. The county is situated in the southern section frequently known as "Little Egypt" of the state of Illinois.

Today the Pope County data site reveals itself with a vast data repository serving all the necessary records on American Civil War history, property allocation acts, immigration and naturalization accounts, birth, military service history, martial feats, death, marriage and divorce verdicts, World War I and II information, census files, ancestral SSN, last will and estate declaration that are required to execute the extended genealogical researches through the internet.