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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.
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 ]
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 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
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 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]
Location of Shelby County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Shelby County, Kentucky.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Shelby County, Kentucky, United States.
There is a 40-mile (64 km) network of trails for visitors to hike and run on. Twenty-three miles are designated mountain biking trails and fourteen miles of trails are devoted to horseback riding. Pierce Lake covers 147 acres (59 ha) with an average depth of 11.19 feet (3.41 m) and a shoreline 4.2 miles (6.8 km) long.