Cedar Lake
Cedar Lake is a 1,750-acre reservoir in southern Illinois, created by the damming of Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Big Muddy River, in 1974. The lake is located in Jackson County, southwest of Carbondale, Illinois.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Makanda.
Makanda
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Makanda is a village in Jackson County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 547, down from 561 in 2010. In the early 20th Century it used the slogan "Star of Egypt." Makanda is part of the Carbondale, Illinois Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Cedar Lake
- Type: Lake
- Description: reservoir in Jackson County, Illinois
- Categories: reservoir and body of water
- Location: Jackson, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.64182° or 37° 38′ 31″ northLongitude
-89.28922° or 89° 17′ 21″ westElevation
430 feet (131 metres)Open location code
869GJPR6+P8OpenStreetMap ID
way 1445677502OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
4235438Wikidata ID
Q5056789
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In Other Languages
“Cedar Lake” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cedar Lake (tubiganan sa Estados Unidos, Illinois, Jackson County)”
- Cebuano: “Cedar Lake”
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