Homefacts City Report. Hinsdale is located in Cook County, IL. The population is 16,594. There are 6 public schools in Hinsdale with an average Homefacts rating of A+. The total crime rate for Hinsdale is very low, and there are 1 registered sex offenders residing in the city.
Governor William Blount served from 1790 to 1796, when Tennessee was known as the Southwest Territory. He was replaced by John Sevier, the state's first governor.
The Arkansas Gazette moved with the government and became the unofficial voice of the territory and its source of news. Public lands went on sale in 1822, but as late as 1840 more than half of territorial taxpayers were squatting on the abundant acreage remaining available. William Miller of New Hampshire was the first governor of Arkansas Territory. By the time he arrived, however, Robert Crittenden of Kentucky, the territorial secretary, had made a number of appointments and held elections for a legislature and a delegate to Congress.