Kampsville is a village in Calhoun County, Illinois, United States, located on the west bank of the Illinois River. The population was 310 at the 2022 census. Name Kampsville was originally known as Beeman's Landing, after James L. Beeman, a ferry operator on the Illinois River. After Stephen Farrow purchased the ferry from Beeman, the name was changed to Farrowtown. The name Vedder was used when the post office was established in 1857. The name Kampsville was made official on 6 March 1872 and refers to Michael A. Kamp, who served as president of the village board and was also a postmaster at Silver Creek, north of Kampsville. General information The Kampsville ferry crosses the Illinois River and connects the Kampsville segment of Illinois Route 108 with its remainder in Greene County. The ferry is free and runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is one of two permanent ferries operated by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The village is the base of operations for the Center for American Archeology, an educational and research organization dedicated to the archeological understanding of the Native Americans and of the European settlers in the region. It contains exhibits demonstrating evidence of 7,000 years of human habitation excavated at the Koster Site in nearby Greene County. Geography According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Kampsville has a total area of , of which (or 82.26%) is land and (or 17.74%) is water. Three highways run through the village. They are Route 100, Route 96, and a small portion of Route 108 leads to the Kampsville ferry. Demographics As of the 2020 census there were 310 people, 132 households, and 96 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 175 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 91.29% White, 1.29% Native American, and 7.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.58% of the population. There were 132 households, out of which 64.39% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.30% were married couples living together, 15.15% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.27% were non-families. 27.27% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.36% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.76 and the average family