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The state park is centered at Burr Oak Lake. The dam for the lake is federal property under the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers, and is named Tom Jenkins Dam. It was built in 1950 for flood control. The maximum depth of the lake is around thirty feet. [4] The lake and park are named for the burr oak tree, a variety of oak. The area ...
1 Hour- 2 Hours. Strouds Run State Park. Athens. East Fork State Park. Bethel. Kiser Lake State Park. Conover. Alum Creek State Park. Delaware. Delaware State Park. Delaware. Burr Oak State Park ...
Tom Jenkins Dam, constructed on the East Branch in Athens County in 1950 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, forms Burr Oak Lake, the site of Burr Oak State Park. [1] [10] [11] In Glouster, Sunday Creek collects the West Branch Sunday Creek, [12] 14 miles (22.5 km) long, [7] which rises in Perry County and flows generally southwardly. [1]
[2] [3] The park is located in Kendall County, Illinois, five miles (8.0 km) west of the city of Yorkville. Since the original acquisition in 1969, 100 acres (40 ha) have been added to the park [2] Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area was one of five new state parks opened in northern Illinois from 1969–1971.
Frank Holten State Recreation Area is an urban Illinois state park on 1,080 acres (437 ha) in unincorporated Centreville Township, St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is located less than five miles southeast of the Gateway Arch in Greater St. Louis. The park is bisected by Interstate 255.
Burr Oak may refer to: ... Illinois; Burr Oak Creek (disambiguation) Burr Oak State Park, a park in Ohio This page was last edited on 6 ...
Oak Brook is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, with a very small portion in Cook County.The population was 8,163 at the 2020 census. [3]A suburb of Chicago, it contains the headquarters of Ace Hardware, Portillo's Restaurants, Blistex, Federal Signal, CenterPoint Properties, Sanford L.P., TreeHouse Foods, Lions Clubs International, the U.S. Census Bureau Chicago regional office, and former ...
The Edward R. Madigan State Fish and Wildlife Area is a 974-acre (394 ha) conservation area located in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located south of Lincoln, Illinois . Founded in 1971 as Railsplitter State Park , it was renamed in 1995 in honor of Edward R. Madigan , a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the town of ...