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Flora is a city in Clay County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,803 at the 2020 census.

Flora was founded by Samuel White. White was born September 10, 1831 in Warren County, Ohio. He and his associates came to Clay County in 1852. During that time, he purchased 85 acres (34 ha) of home from the State of Illinois. His first wife, Sarah Ann Wall was born in 1833. Sarah died December 13, 1859 in Flora, and is buried in the family scheme in Elmwood Cemetery. In December 1860, White married Helen M. Riggs in Flora.

The original town of Flora was laid out, surveyed and platted in February 1854 by Ethelred Nixon, County Surveyor; John Brown, Trustee for Songer, Camp & Company; and Samuel White. It embraced eighty-five acres of the west half of Section 25, Township 3 north Range 6 east. Samuel White who nevertheless owned the land, deeded one-half combination in forty acres to John Brown, Trustee, with a view of securing the town and depot. An effort had already been made to acknowledge a town one mile west called Mooresville, where beyond 100 lots had been sold and some buildings done. After the collapse of that village, the principal house was moved to Flora, and was subsequently known as the “Commercial House.”