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Illinois Department of Natural Resources Newton Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 1,775 acres (718 ha) in Jasper County , Illinois , United States. The park's grasslands are home to the largest of the three remaining greater prairie chicken flocks in Illinois.
The town was founded on a 3,800-acre (15 km 2) tract of land in the southwestern part of the county which Allerton purchased in 1880. It had formerly been known as Twin Grove Farm (because of two very similar 100-acre (0.40 km 2 ) groves of trees in the area).
Grays Lake contains approximately 112 million US gallons (420,000 m 3) of water covering approximately 80 acres (320,000 m 2).Water depth is approximately 18 feet (5.5 m) [3] at its deepest point and averages 4 feet (1.2 m) deep.
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Instead of being located in the relatively flat, rolling terrain characteristic of most of Illinois, the lake is located in an unglaciated zone of deep sandstone valleys and steep slopes. Devils Kitchen Lake is located in one of these valleys, and it is one of the deepest lakes in Illinois. Sections of the lake are as deep as 90 feet (27 m). [1]
Carterville is a city in Williamson County, Illinois, United States.At the 2020 census, the city's population was 5,848.The city is part of the Carbondale-Marion-Herrin combined statistical area and has grown considerably as a residential community of Carbondale and Marion.
Moonshine is an unincorporated town located in Clark County, Illinois, United States.It has been featured on the CBS Sunday Morning Show.There is only one building in the entire town (not including the outhouse), and this was a grocery store built in 1912.
Middle Fork Woods Nature Preserve is located within Kickapoo State Park and is the only known location of the silvery salamander in Illinois. [1] This nature preserve of 69.2 acres [ 9 ] is home to many different tree species including white and black oak, hickory, blue beech, sugar maple, basswood, ironwood, redbud, and sassafras .