Galton
Galton is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Illinois, United States. Galton is located on U.S. Route 45, 4 miles north of Arcola. The community was named after Douglas Galton, a British actuary who visited Illinois several times to examine the books of the Illinois Central Railroad on behalf of Dutch and British investors.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Illinois
- Also known as: “Galton, IL” and “Galton, Illinois”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hillcrest and Arcola.
Hillcrest
Hamlet
Hillcrest is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Illinois, United States. Hillcrest is located immediately to the south of Tuscola. Hillcrest is situated 3½ miles north of Galton.
Arcola
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arcola is a city in the Central Illinois region of Illinois with about 2,900 residents in 2020. Visitors will get a sense of small-town Midwest as they walk or drive down the streets of Arcola.
Bourbon
Hamlet
Bourbon is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Illinois, United States. Bourbon is 5.5 miles northwest of Arcola. Bourbon is situated 4 miles west of Galton.
Galton
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Arcola Township, Douglas, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.73948° or 39° 44′ 22″ northLongitude
-88.30033° or 88° 18′ 1″ westElevation
650 feet (198 metres)Open location code
86FHPMQX+QVOpenStreetMap ID
node 153423255OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Irish—“Galton” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “加爾頓 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “加爾頓”
- French: “Galton”
- Irish: “Galton”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Galton”. Photo: Rastapopulous, CC BY-SA 3.0.