Lake Fork, Illinois

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Lake Fork, Illinois
Unincorporated community
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Lake Fork
Location in Illinois
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Lake Fork
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 39°58′14″N89°21′00″W / 39.97056°N 89.35000°W / 39.97056; -89.35000
CountryUnited States
StateIllinois
County Logan
Township Mount Pulaski
Elevation
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600 ft (200 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Postal code
62541
Area code 217
GNIS feature ID411713 [1]

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

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History

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake Fork, Illinois
  2. ↑ Stringer, Lawrence Beaumont (1911). History of Logan County, Illinois: A Record of Its Settlement, Organization, Progress, and Achievement. Unigraphic. p. 633.
  3. ↑ "Logan County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 16, 2016.

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