world.wikisort.org - USA

Search / Calendar

Lake Fork is an unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois along Illinois Route 54.

Lake Fork, Illinois
Unincorporated community
Lake Fork
Location in Illinois
Lake Fork
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 39°58′14″N 89°21′00″W
CountryUnited States
StateIllinois
CountyLogan
TownshipMount Pulaski
Elevation
596 ft (182 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Postal code
62541
Area code(s)217

History


Lake Fork was laid out in 1881.[1] The community is named after Buffalo Lake, a now-vanished prairie wetland in southern Logan County on the upper reaches of the Lake Fork of Salt Creek. A post office called Lake Fork has been in operation since 1881.[2]


References


  1. Stringer, Lawrence Beaumont (1911). History of Logan County, Illinois: A Record of Its Settlement, Organization, Progress, and Achievement. Unigraphic. p. 633.
  2. "Logan County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 16 January 2016.



This Logan County, Illinois location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e


Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии