Poverty Ridge, Illinois

Poverty Ridge, Illinois
Unincorporated community
Poverty Ridge, Illinois
Coordinates: 40°27′43″N 90°20′27″W / 40.46194°N 90.34083°W / 40.46194; -90.34083Coordinates: 40°27′43″N 90°20′27″W / 40.46194°N 90.34083°W / 40.46194; -90.34083
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Fulton
Elevation	663 ft (202 m)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s)	309
GNIS feature ID	1802240[1]

Poverty Ridge is an unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States,^[1] about eleven miles northwest of Lewistown.^[2] Its elevation is 633 feet (202 m), and it is located at 40°27′43″N 90°20′27″W / 40.46194°N 90.34083°W / 40.46194; -90.34083 (40.4619856, -90.3409579).^[1] The community is named for a line of hills near Seville, which likewise is named Poverty Ridge.^[2]

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Fulton County, Illinois, United States County seat: Lewistown Cities Canton Cuba Farmington Lewistown Town Astoria Villages Avon Banner Bryant Dunfermline Ellisville Fairview Ipava Liverpool London Mills‡ Marietta Norris Smithfield St. David Table Grove Vermont Townships Astoria Banner Bernadotte Buckheart Canton Cass Deerfield Ellisville Fairview Farmers Farmington Harris Isabel Joshua Kerton Lee Lewistown Liverpool Orion Pleasant Putman Union Vermont Waterford Woodland Young Hickory Unincorporated communities Babylon Beaty Bernadotte Blyton Breeds Brereton Checkrow Depler Springs Duncan Mills Enion Fiatt Gilchrist Leesburg Little America Manley Maples Mill Marbletown Middlegrove Monterey Poverty Ridge Rawalts Sepo Seville Summum Ghost towns Buckeye Bybee Civer Forty Acres Fulton Center Howard Keeler Midway Otto Pleasant Ridge Sugarville Troy Tuscumbia Virgil Waterford Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties