Dawson
Dawson is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 519 at the 2020 census. It is about 10 miles east of Springfield and is part of the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 509 residents
- Description: village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Dawson, IL” and “Dawson, Illinois”
- Postal code: 62520
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buffalo and Barclay.
Buffalo
Village
Buffalo is a village in Mechanicsburg Township in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 503 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Buffalo is situated 3 miles east of Dawson.
Barclay
Hamlet
Barclay is an unincorporated community in Clear Lake and Williams townships, Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. Barclay is located on Illinois Route 54 and the Canadian National Railway, 1.3 miles northeast of Spaulding. Barclay is situated 3½ miles northwest of Dawson.
Riverton
Village
Riverton is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,455 at the 2010 census, up from 3,062 in 2000. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Riverton is situated 4 miles west of Dawson.
Dawson
- Categories: village of Illinois and locality
- Location: Mechanicsburg Township, Sangamon, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.85283° or 39° 51′ 10″ northLongitude
-89.46343° or 89° 27′ 48″ westPopulation
509Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)Open location code
86FGVG3P+4JOpenStreetMap ID
node 153576247OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4236853Wikidata ID
Q922394
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Dawson” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “داوسون”
- Basque: “Dawson”
- Catalan: “Dawson”
- Cebuano: “Dawson”
- Chinese: “Dawson”
- Chinese: “道生 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “道生”
- Dutch: “Dawson”
- French: “Dawson”
- German: “Dawson”
- Gilaki: “داؤسن (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “داؤسن”
- Haitian: “Dawson, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Dawson”
- Hausa: “Dawson”
- Italian: “Dawson”
- Ladin: “Dawson”
- Mazanderani: “داوسن (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “داوسن”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dawson”
- Newari: “डःसन (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “डःसन, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “डःसन, इलियोनोई”
- Polish: “Dawson”
- Portuguese: “Dawson”
- Serbian: “Досон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dawson, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dawson”
- Spanish: “Dawson”
- Ukrainian: “Досон”
- Urdu: “ڈاوسن، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “ڈاوسن”
- Vietnamese: “Dawson, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Dawson”
- Volapük: “Dawson”
- Welsh: “Dawson, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Dawson”
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