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Off Illinois Route 9, 1 mile east and 1.2 miles north of its junction with Illinois Route 97: Fiatt: 11: East Waterford School: East Waterford School: November 10, 2009 : Junction of North Dickson Mounds Rd. and East Prairie Rd.
Canton is located in northeastern Fulton County at Illinois Routes 9 and 78 pass through the downtown together. IL 9 leads east 8 miles (13 km) to Banner near the Illinois River and west 27 miles (43 km) to Bushnell, while IL 78 leads north 10 miles (16 km) to Farmington and south 11 miles (18 km) to Little America in the Illinois River valley.
Indian Ford was a crossing of the Spoon River named by Job Babbit, an early Fulton County pioneer who helped survey a road from Farmington to Burlington in 1835 and named Union Township. According to Chapman's History of Fulton County (p. 886), Babbit discovered, where the road crossed the river, a trough made from an elm log that was fastened ...
IL 96 north / Great River Road (National Route) north / Lincoln Heritage Trail (Western Branch) – Hamilton: Eastern end of IL 96/Great River Road overlap; western end of Lincoln Heritage Trail overlap 11.6: 18.7: I-172 south / IL 110 (CKC) / IL 336 north – Hannibal, Macomb: I-172 exit 19 27.0: 43.5: IL 94 north: Brown: Mount Sterling: 42.0 ...
US 136 east / IL 97 south (West Dearborn Street) / Illinois River Road north – Duncan Mills, Kilbourne: Begin/end concurrency with US 136 and IL 97; Illinois River Road west route continues on IL 78: Illinois River: 44.5: 71.6: Scott W. Lucas Bridge: Fulton: Isabel Township: 45.3: 72.9: US 136 west – Duncan Mills, Ipava: Begin/end ...
In 1987, IL 3, 143, and 100 alignments were changed to their current routes in the River Bend (Illinois) area when the Homer M. Adams Parkway Extension was opened. On June 28, 2012, the Florence Bridge over the Illinois River was closed for at least 9 months by IDOT due to difficulties with the lifting mechanism that allows barge traffic to ...
Illinois Route 9 (IL 9) is a 218.31-mile-long (351.34 km) cross-state, east–west rural state highway in the central part of the U.S. state of Illinois.It travels from Niota at the Fort Madison Toll Bridge, that crosses the Mississippi River into Iowa, eastward across central Illinois to State Road 26 (SR 26) at the Indiana state line.
According to the US Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 883 square miles (2,290 km 2), of which 866 square miles (2,240 km 2) is land and 17 square miles (44 km 2) (1.9%) is water. [5] Fulton County is the site of Dickson Mounds Museum, a state museum of Native American daily life in the Illinois River valley.