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. Monks Mound is situated 2½ miles northeast of Washington Park.

Mound 72

Archaeological site

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Mound 72 is a small ridgetop mound located roughly 850 meters to the south of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois. Early in the site's history, the location began as a circle of 48 large wooden posts known as a "woodhenge". Mound 72 is situated 2 miles northeast of Washington Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairmont City and State Park Place.

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.

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. State Park Place is situated 3 miles northeast of Washington Park.

Alorton

Village

Alorton was a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Incorporated in 1944, it was one of three municipalities that merged to form the city of Cahokia Heights on May 6, 2021; the other two were the village of Cahokia and the city of Centreville. Alorton is situated 3½ miles southwest of Washington Park.

Washington Park

Categories: village of Illinois and locality
Location: Canteen Township, St. Clair, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.63505° or 38° 38′ 6″ north

Longitude

-90.09289° or 90° 5′ 34″ west

Population

2,590

Elevation

410 feet (125 metres)

United Nations Location Code

US WGK

Open location code

86CFJWP4+2R

OpenStreetMap ID

node 151541333

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

4252512

Wikidata ID

Q2185623

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Washington Park” goes by many names.

Arabic: “واشنيغتون بارك”
Basque: “Washington Park”
Catalan: “Washington Park”
Cebuano: “Washington Park”
Chinese: “Washington Park”
Chinese: “華盛頓公園 (伊利諾伊州)”
Chinese: “華盛頓公園”
Dutch: “Washington Park”
French: “Washington Park”
German: “Washington Park”
Gilaki: “واشينگتن پارک (ايلينؤی)”
Gilaki: “واشينگتن پارک”
Haitian: “Washington Park, Ilinwa”
Haitian: “Washington Park”
Italian: “Washington Park”
Ladin: “Washington Park”
Mazanderani: “واشنیگتون بارک (ایلینوی)”
Mazanderani: “واشنیگتون بارک”
Min Nan Chinese: “Washington Park”
Polish: “Washington Park”
Portuguese: “Washington Park”
Serbian: “Вошингтон Парк”
Serbo-Croatian: “Washington Park, Illinois”
Serbo-Croatian: “Washington Park”
Spanish: “Washington Park”
Ukrainian: “Вашингтон-Парк”
Vietnamese: “Washington Park, Illinois”
Vietnamese: “Washington Park”
Volapük: “Washington Park”
Welsh: “Washington Park, Illinois”
Welsh: “Washington Park”

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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 “Washington Park”. Photo: Rastapopulous, CC BY-SA 3.0.