Walkers Island

Walkers Island is an island in Madison, Illinois. Walkers Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Moellenbrocks, as well as near Four Corners.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Horseshoe Lake State Park and Monks Mound.

Horseshoe Lake State Park

Nature reserve

Photo: Trailnet, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Horseshoe Lake State Park is an Illinois state park in Madison County, Illinois, United States. It is approximately 2,960 acres and surrounds a large horseshoe-shaped lake called Horseshoe Lake.

Monks Mound

Archaeological site

Photo: Skubasteve834, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica. The beginning of its construction dates from 900 to 955 CE.

Mound 34 is a small platform mound located roughly 400 metres to the east of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Excavations near Mound 34 from 2002 to 2010 revealed the remains of a copper workshop, although the one of a kind discovery had been found in the late 1950s by archaeologist Gregory Perino, but lost for 60 years.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pontoon Beach and State Park Place.

Pontoon Beach

Village

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Pontoon Beach is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,876 at the 2020 census. It is part of the St. Louis metropolitan area.

State Park Place

Hamlet

State Park Place is an unincorporated community in Madison and St. Clair counties, Illinois, United States. State Park Place borders Collinsville to the east and Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site to the west.

Fairmont City

Fairmont City is a village in St. Clair and Madison counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,265 at the 2020 census, down from 2,635 in 2010.

Walkers Island

Type: Island
Categories: locality and landform
Location: Madison, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.69144° or 38° 41′ 29″ north

Longitude

-90.07761° or 90° 4′ 39″ west

Elevation

410 feet (125 metres)

Open location code

86CFMWRC+HX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 354150787

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

4252332

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