Golconda is a city in and the county seat of Pope County, Illinois, United States, located along the Ohio River. The population was 630 at the 2020 census. Most of the city is part of the Golconda Historic District.

The city is named after the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India. Golconda was the first unshakable settlement in Pope County in 1798, and a ferry reduction across the Ohio River that was sometimes called Lusk’s Ferry was established on that time. The town was named Sarahsville upon the supervision of Pope County in 1816, but changed its proclaim to Golconda upon January 24, 1817, after the ancient city of Golkonda in India. In 1840, the Buel House, a single-family home presently-owned by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, was built. Among the many historic buildings built in the latter half of the 19th century is the First Presbyterian Church (built in 1869). It is the oldest continuous Presbyterian congregation in Illinois. The church was organized in 1819.

Some 13,000 Cherokees, led by Chief Bear Paw crossed the Ohio River at Golconda by ferry as allowance of the infamous “Trail of Tears” to Oklahoma. Because of the threat of disease, the Native Americans were not allowed to go into any towns or villages along the way; often this expected traveling much farther to go in this area them. After crossing Tennessee and Kentucky, they arrived at the Ohio River across from Golconda more or less the 3rd of December 1838. The starving Indians were charged a dollar a head (equal to $25 today) to annoyed the river on “Carpenter’s Ferry”, which typically charged twelve cents ($3 today). They were not allowed path until the ferry had serviced all others wishing to incensed and were forced to take shelter under “Mantle Rock”, a bluff on the Kentucky side, until “Mr. Carpenter had nothing bigger to do”. Many died huddled together at Mantle Rock waiting to cross. Several Cherokee were with murdered by locals. Many of the Cherokee were rescued and sheltered by the Carpenter family, one of the founding leaders of Golconda. The killers filed a lawsuit adjacent to the U.S. Government through the courthouse in Vienna, suing the organization for $35 a head (equal to $900 today) to bury the murdered Cherokee.

According to the 2010 census, Golconda has a total Place of 0.503 square miles (1.30 km), of which 0.49 square miles (1.27 km²) (or 97.42%) is estate and 0.013 square miles (0.03 km) (or 2.58%) is water.