Garden Plain (Illinois)

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Garden Plain
Garden Plain (Illinois)
Garden Plain
Garden Plain
Location in Illinois
Basic data
State : United States
State : Illinois
County : Whiteside County
Coordinates : 41 ° 48 ′  N , 90 ° 8 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′  N , 90 ° 8 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Height : 219 m
Postal code : 61252
Area code : +1 815
FIPS : 17-28573
GNIS ID : 408879

Garden Plain is a small settlement in Whiteside County in the northwest of the US -amerikanischen state of Illinois . The place is located in the Garden Plain Township and as an unincorporated community does not belong to any community.

geography

Garden Plain is west of Whiteside County. The place is at 41 ° 48'03 "north latitude and 90 ° 07'49" west longitude. The Mississippi , which forms the border with Iowa , is about 3 km to the west. The Wisconsin border runs approximately 90 km north.

Neighboring towns to Garden Plain are Albany (5 miles west), East Clinton (4.3 miles northwest), Fulton (9.4 miles north), Morrison ( 9 miles east), and Erie (11.3 miles south).

The closest major cities are Dubuque , Iowa (109 km northwest), Rockford (133 km northeast), Chicago (216 km east), Peoria (165 km southeast), the Quad Cities (59.8 km west southwest) and Cedar Rapids in Iowa (147 km to the west).

traffic

Garden Plain Road, the main street of Garden Plain, is a secondary highway. There are also a number of unpaved driveways and inner-city connecting roads.

The nearest airports are Chicago Rockford International Airport, 79 miles northeast of Garden Plain, and Quad City International Airport, 38 miles southwest .

Individual evidence

  1. Distance information according to Google Maps , accessed on July 12, 2012

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