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Riverton Site. The Riverton Site is an archaeological site located immediately west of the Wabash River and northeast of Palestine, Illinois. The site, which dates from the Late Archaic period (3000-1000 BCE), is the type site of the Riverton culture. The Riverton culture, of which only three known sites had been discovered as of 1978 ...
The lake is located in parts of four counties: Anderson, Cherokee, Henderson, and Smith. According to the Texas Water Development Board 2012 Survey, the storage capacity of Lake Palestine is 367,312 acre-feet with a surface area of 23,112 acres at the conservation pool elevation of 345 feet above mean sea level.
UTC−5 (CDT) Congressional district. 12th. Website. crawfordcountyil.org. Crawford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,679. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Robinson.
Palestine was chartered in 1811, while the area still belonged to Virginia, and is one of the oldest towns in the State of Illinois. It was named the seat of Crawford County in 1818. [6] Elections in 1843 moved the county seat to a new site, which would become the town of Robinson. It was officially incorporated as an Illinois town in 1855. [3] [7]
UTC−5 (CDT) Congressional district. 16th. Website. www.woodford-county.org. Woodford County is a county located in the state of Illinois. The 2020 United States Census listed its population at 38,467. [1] Its county seat is Eureka. [2] Woodford County is part of the Peoria, IL, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
From 1910 to 1958, the former bottomland lake and marsh were leveed and drained for farming. [1] From the late 1880s to the mid-1980s, approximately 90% of the site was strip-mined for coal. [2] [3] [4] The Illinois Department of Natural Resources purchased the land in the 1980s. [5]
There are 17 counties with no township government: Alexander, Calhoun, Edwards, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Menard, Monroe, Morgan, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Scott, Union, Wabash, and Williamson. [5] Each of those counties is instead divided into precincts. Unlike townships, precincts have no functions in and of themselves and all their ...
Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park on 1,550 acres (630 ha) in Shabbona Township, DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. Shabbona Lake is a man-made lake created in 1975 by damming the (Big) Indian Creek, a tributary of the Fox River. Its name derives from the Potawatomi leader Shabbona. [2] Seventy miles west of ...