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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.
Findlay, Illinois: Coordinates: Area ... Eagle Creek State Park is an Illinois state park on 11,100 acres (4,492 ha) on Lake Shelbyville in Shelby County, Illinois ...
Findlay, Illinois: Findlay is a village in Shelby County, Illinois, ... Both parks are at Lake Shelbyville — Findlay calls itself "The Heart of Lake Shelbyville" in ...
Illinois Department of Natural Resources 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 .
Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census , it had a population of 20,990. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Shelbyville .
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]
Shelbyville is a city in and the county seat of Shelby County, Illinois, United States, [2] along the Kaskaskia River. As of the 2020 census, the population was at 4,674. HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital, located in town, is the county's only hospital. Shelbyville is also home to Chautauqua Auditorium.
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 ]