Claytonville, Illinois

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Claytonville, Illinois
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Claytonville
Iroquois County's location in Illinois
Coordinates: 40°34′01″N87°49′23″W / 40.56694°N 87.82306°W / 40.56694; -87.82306 Coordinates: 40°34′01″N87°49′23″W / 40.56694°N 87.82306°W / 40.56694; -87.82306
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Illinois.svg  Illinois
County Iroquois County
Township Fountain Creek Township
Elevation
659 ft (201 m)
Time zone Central Standard Time
ZIP code
60926
Area code(s) 815
GNIS feature ID0406197 [1]

Claytonville is an unincorporated community in Iroquois County, Illinois, United States.

Iroquois County, Illinois County in the United States

Iroquois County is a county located in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 29,718. It is the only county in the United States to be named Iroquois, after the American Indian people. The county seat is Watseka. The county is located along the border with Indiana.

Illinois State of the United States of America

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It has the fifth largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth largest population, and the 25th largest land area of all U.S. states. Illinois has been noted as a microcosm of the entire United States. With Chicago in northeastern Illinois, small industrial cities and immense agricultural productivity in the north and center of the state, and natural resources such as coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a diverse economic base, and is a major transportation hub. Chicagoland, Chicago's metropolitan area, encompasses over 65% of the state's population. The Port of Chicago connects the state to international ports via two main routes: from the Great Lakes, via the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the Illinois Waterway to the Illinois River. The Mississippi River, the Ohio River, and the Wabash River form parts of the boundaries of Illinois. For decades, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport has been ranked as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and, through the 1980s, in politics.

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Geography

Claytonville is located at 40°34′01″N87°49′20″W / 40.56694°N 87.82222°W / 40.56694; -87.82222 (40.566944, -87.822222), a little under four miles east of the town of Cissna Park and about two miles west of Goodwine. An east-west line of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad used to pass through the community but is now defunct.

Cissna Park, Illinois Village in Illinois, United States

Cissna Park is a village in Pigeon Grove Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 846 at the 2010 census.

Goodwine, Illinois Unincorporated community in Illinois, United States

Goodwine is an unincorporated community in southern Iroquois County, Illinois, United States.

Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad defunct American Class I railway

The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago to southern Illinois, St. Louis, and Evansville. Founded in 1877, it grew aggressively and stayed relatively strong throughout the Great Depression and two World Wars before finally being purchased by the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N). Missouri Pacific merged with the C&EI corporate entity in 1976, and was later acquired itself by the Union Pacific Railroad.

The small waterway Whiskey Creek runs along the north edge of town, flowing east to meet with Fountain Creek north of Goodwine.

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References

  1. "Claytonville". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2010-10-15.