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Lake Shelbyville is a reservoir located in Shelby County, Illinois and Moultrie County, Illinois created by damming the Kaskaskia River at Shelbyville, Illinois. The lake's normal surface pool is 11,100 acres (44.9 km 2) at an elevation of 183 meters (600.4 ft). The area that surrounds the lake is the Shelbyville State Fish and Wildlife Area.
The West Okaw forms an arm of Lake Shelbyville where the natural rivers used to meet. The West Okaw is the western fork of the Kaskaskia, which was formerly known as the Okaw. The name "Okaw" comes from the Mississippi Valley French au Kaskaskies ("to the Kaskaskias "), which was commonly shortened to au Kas . [ 2 ]
Shelbyville State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 6,200 acres (2,500 ha) in Moultrie County, Illinois, United States. It covers part of the watershed of Lake Shelbyville . References
Shelbyville Lake and Dam on the Kaskaskia River at Shelbyville, Illinois. The Kaskaskia River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 325 miles (523 km) long, [2] in central and southern Illinois in the United States. [3]
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz. The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
Eagle Creek State Park is an Illinois state park on 11,100 acres (4,492 ha) on Lake Shelbyville in Shelby County, Illinois, United States. External links [ edit ]
The Great Loop is a system of waterways that encompasses the eastern portion of the United States and part of Canada. It is made up of both natural and man-made waterways, including the Atlantic and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways, the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal, and the Mississippi and Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. [1]
Wolf Creek State Park was one of eleven state parks slated to close indefinitely on November 1, 2008, due to budget cuts by then-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. [1]After delay, which restored funding for some of the parks, a proposal to close seven state parks and a dozen state historic sites, including Wolf Creek State Park, went ahead on November 30, 2008. [2]