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The Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area within their states. Dark shaded counties were included only by WTVW prior to the rollout of digital television.. The Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area is a tri-state area where the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky intersect, and a region of the Upland South.
The Shawnee National Forest is a United States National Forest located in the Ozark and Shawnee Hills of Southern Illinois, United States.Administered by the U.S.D.A. Forest Service, it consists of approximately 498,615 acres (2,100 km²) of federally managed lands.
The Illinois Basin is a Paleozoic depositional and structural basin in the United States, centered in and underlying most of the state of Illinois, and extending into southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The basin is elongate, extending approximately 400 miles (640 km) northwest-southeast, and 200 miles (320 km) southwest-northeast.
Ozark is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Illinois, United States. Ozark is south of New Burnside . and has a post office with ZIP code 62972. [ 2 ] Ozark is also home to Camp Ondessonk , a Catholic youth camp that is run by the Diocese of Belleville .
The Springfield Plateau is the only Ozark Highland Level IV ecoregion within all four states. [1] The nearly level to rolling Springfield Plateau is underlain by cherty limestone of the Mississippian Boone Formation and Burlington Limestone; it is less rugged and wooded than Ecoregions 38, 39b, and 39c, and lacks the Ordovician dolomite and limestone of Ecoregions 39c and 39d.
Clark County is a county located in the southeastern part of U.S. state of Illinois, along the Indiana state line. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,455. [1] Its county seat is Marshall. [2] The county was named for George Rogers Clark, an officer who served in the American Revolution. [3]
A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]
Louisville, Kentucky, and the associated Indiana communities—Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and New Albany—all owe their existence as communities to the falls, as the navigational obstacles the falls presented meant that late-18th-century and early- to late-19th-century river traffic could benefit from local expertise in navigating the 26 ...