Lake Fork, Illinois

Lake Fork
Unincorporated community
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Logan

Elevation	596 ft (182 m)
Coordinates	39°58′14″N 89°21′00″W / 39.97056°N 89.35000°W / 39.97056; -89.35000

Timezone	CST (UTC-6)
- summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
Postal code	62541
Area code	217

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

History

Lake Fork was laid out in 1881.^[1] 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.^[2]

References

↑ Stringer, Lawrence Beaumont (1911). History of Logan County, Illinois: A Record of Its Settlement, Organization, Progress, and Achievement. Unigraphic. p. 633.
↑ "Logan County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 16 January 2016.

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Municipalities and communities of Logan County, Illinois, United States

County seat: Lincoln

Cities	Atlanta Lincoln Mount Pulaski

Villages	Broadwell Elkhart Emden Hartsburg Latham Middletown New Holland San Jose‡

Townships	Aetna Atlanta Broadwell Chester Corwin East Lincoln Elkhart Eminence Hurlbut Laenna Lake Fork Mount Pulaski Oran Orvil Prairie Creek Sheridan West Lincoln

CDPs	Beason Chestnut Cornland

Other unincorporated communities	Bakerville Bell Burtonview Chestervale Croft‡ Evans Fogarty Harness Lake Fork Lawndale Lucas Mount Fulcher Mountjoy Narita Skelton Union

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

Coordinates: 39°58′14″N 89°21′00″W / 39.97056°N 89.35000°W / 39.97056; -89.35000

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