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Lewistown
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city in Illinois, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- County
- Fulton
- Township
- Lewistown
- Founded
- 1823 as Fulton Courthouse
- Renamed
- 1831 as Lewistown
- Founded by
- Ossian M. Ross
- Named after
- Lewis Winans Ross
- Mayor
- Cindy Goddard
- Total
- 2.00 sq mi (5.18 km )
- Land
- 2.00 sq mi (5.18 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 591 ft (180 m)
- Estimate 2024
- 1,960
- Density
- 1,020.4/sq mi (393.98/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Fips code
- 17-43055
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Encyclopedic overview
Lewistown is a city and the county seat of Fulton County, Illinois, United States. It was named by its founder, Ossian M. Ross, after his oldest son, Lewis Winans Ross. The population was 2,041 at the 2020 census. Located in central Illinois, it is southwest of Peoria. It is the source of Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, who lived there. Native American burial mounds are nearby at Dickson Mounds off Illinois Route 97.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lewistown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.