Big Foot Prairie, Illinois and Wisconsin

Big Foot Prairie, Illinois and Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
Big Foot Prairie, Illinois and Wisconsin
Coordinates: 42°29′42″N 88°35′56″W / 42.49500°N 88.59889°W / 42.49500; -88.59889Coordinates: 42°29′42″N 88°35′56″W / 42.49500°N 88.59889°W / 42.49500; -88.59889
Country	United States
States	Illinois, Wisconsin
Counties	McHenry (Illinois), Walworth (Wisconsin)
Elevation	958 ft (292 m)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
Zip code	53184, 60033
Area code(s)	815 & 779, 262
GNIS feature ID	404404^[1]

Big Foot Prairie is an unincorporated community in both McHenry County, Illinois and Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States. The Illinois portion of the community, which is larger, is located in Chemung Township, while the Wisconsin portion is located in the Town of Walworth.^[2]^[3] Big Foot Prairie is located on U.S. Route 14, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Harvard.

History

The community was named for Big Foot, a Potawatomi chief who resided in the area in the 1820s and 1830s. It once had a post office, which opened on May 15, 1848.^[4]

Notable people

Phipps W. Lake, Free Will Baptist minister and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, lived in Big Foot Prairie, in the town of Walworth, Wisconsin, in Walworth County, Wisconsin.^[5]
Lewis N. Wood, physician and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, lived in Big Foot Prairie.^[6]

References

↑ "Big Foot Prairie". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
↑ McHenry County General Highway Map (PDF) (Map). Illinois Department of Transportation. 2010. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
↑ Walworth County (PDF) (Map). Wisconsin Department of Transportation. 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 16, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
↑ Callary, Edward (2009). Place Names of Illinois. University of Illinois Press. p. 425.
↑ 'History of Walworth County, Wisconsin,' vol. II, Albert Clayton Beckwith, B.F. Bowen & Company: 1912, Biographical Sketch of Phipps Waldo Lake, pg. 936-938
↑ History of Walworth County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Company. 1882. p. 807. Retrieved 2015-06-21.

Municipalities and communities of McHenry County, Illinois, United States

County seat: Woodstock

Cities	Crystal Lake Harvard Marengo McHenry Woodstock

Villages	Algonquin‡ Barrington Hills‡ Bull Valley Cary Fox Lake‡ Fox River Grove‡ Greenwood Hebron Holiday Hills Huntley‡ Island Lake‡ Johnsburg Lake in the Hills Lakemoor‡ Lakewood McCullom Lake Oakwood Hills Port Barrington‡ Prairie Grove Richmond Ringwood Spring Grove Trout Valley Union Wonder Lake

Townships	Alden Algonquin Burton Chemung Coral Dorr Dunham Grafton Greenwood Hartland Hebron Marengo McHenry Nunda Richmond Riley Seneca

CDPs	Chemung Pistakee Highlands

Other unincorporated communities	Alden Big Foot Prairie‡ Burtons Bridge Coral Franklinville Harmony Hartland Lake Killarney Lawrence Palm Beach Ridgefield Riley Silver Lake Solon Mills Terra Cotta

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Municipalities and communities of Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States

County seat: Elkhorn

Cities	Burlington‡ Delavan Elkhorn Lake Geneva Whitewater‡

Villages	Bloomfield Darien East Troy Fontana-on-Geneva Lake Genoa City‡ Mukwonago‡ Sharon Walworth Williams Bay

Towns	Bloomfield Darien Delavan East Troy Geneva La Grange Lafayette Linn Lyons Richmond Sharon Spring Prairie Sugar Creek Troy Walworth Whitewater

CDPs	Como Delavan Lake Lake Ivanhoe Lake Lorraine Lauderdale Lakes Potter Lake Springfield Turtle Lake

Unincorporated communities	Abells Corners Adams Allen's Grove Bardwell Big Foot Prairie‡ Bowers East Delavan Fairfield‡ Heart Prairie Hilburn Honey Creek Inlet La Grange Lake Beulah Lake Como Lake Lawn Lauderdale Lauderdale Shores Linton Little Prairie Lyons Millard North Bloomfield Richmond Spring Prairie Tibbets Troy Troy Center Voree Zenda

Ghost towns	Army Lake Mayhews

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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