Lake Fork, Illinois

Unincorporated community in Illinois, United States
39°58′14″N 89°21′00″W / 39.97056°N 89.35000°W / 39.97056; -89.35000CountryUnited StatesStateIllinoisCountyLoganTownshipMount PulaskiElevation600 ft (200 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (CST) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Postal code
62541 [1]
Area code217GNIS feature ID411713[1]

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

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]

References

  1. ^ a b 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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39°58′14″N 89°21′00″W / 39.97056°N 89.35000°W / 39.97056; -89.35000


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