Fort Gage
Fort Gage is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. The community is on the Mississippi River at the intersection of County Routes 3 and 6, 5.6 miles northwest of Chester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Fort Gage, IL” and “Fort Gage, Illinois”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site.
Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site
Park
Photo: Kbh3rd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site is a 200-acre park near Chester, Illinois, on a blufftop overlooking the Mississippi River. It commemorates the vanished frontier town of Old Kaskaskia and the support it gave to George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaskaskia and Chester.
Kaskaskia
Village
Photo: C. Houchin, CC BY 3.0.
Kaskaskia is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, on the west side of the Mississippi River. The population of Kaskaskia was 21 in the 2020 United States census, making it the third-least populous incorporated community in Illinois behind Valley City and Florence. Kaskaskia is situated 3 miles south of Fort Gage.
Chester
Town
Photo: FieldMarine, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chester is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, Illinois, United States, on a bluff above the Mississippi River. The population was 7,640 at the 2020 census. It lies 61 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri. Chester is situated 6 miles southeast of Fort Gage.
Fort Gage
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Randolph, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.96061° or 37° 57′ 38″ northLongitude
-89.90455° or 89° 54′ 16″ westElevation
387 feet (118 metres)Open location code
869GX36W+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 153703673OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
“Fort Gage” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “蓋奇堡 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “蓋奇堡”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Old Kaskaskia and Reily Lake.
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Highlights include French Colonial Historic District and Pierre Menard Home Historic Site.
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