Lake Fork, Illinois
Lake Fork, Illinois | |
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Coordinates: 39°58′14″N 89°21′00″W / 39.97056°N 89.35000°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Illinois |
County | Logan |
Township | Mount Pulaski |
Elevation | 600 ft (200 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Postal code | 62541 [1] |
Area code | 217 |
GNIS feature ID | 411713[1] |
Lake Fork is an unincorporated community in Logan County, Illinois along Illinois Route 54.
History
[edit]Lake Fork was laid out in 1881.[2] 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.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake Fork, Illinois
- ^ Stringer, Lawrence Beaumont (1911). History of Logan County, Illinois: A Record of Its Settlement, Organization, Progress, and Achievement. Unigraphic. p. 633.
- ^ "Logan County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
External links
[edit]39°58′14″N 89°21′00″W / 39.97056°N 89.35000°W