Illinois
Franklin
Browning Township

West City

West City is a in , , . It is adjacent to the county seat of . The population was 656 at the 2020 census.
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  • Type: Village with 744 residents
  • Description: village in Franklin County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “West City, Illinois”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Benton Municipal Airport and Franklin County Jail.

Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
is a city-owned, public-use located 1 nautical mile west of the central business district of , a city in , , .

Prison
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The , located at 209 W. Main St. in , is the former county jail of , . The jail was built in 1905–06 to replace the county's previous jail, which was built in the 1840s after the county seat moved to Benton.

Library
serves the town of , and the residents of the District. The library is located at 502 S. Main St. in Benton.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Benton and Steel City.

Town
Photo: Aplucas0703, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in and the county seat of . The population was 6,709 at the 2020 census. In 1839, was split roughly in half and the county seat was permanently fixed "at a hill at the south end of Rowling's Prairie", the site of the future city of .

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in Benton Township, , , . It is located about a mile east of the county seat of on Illinois Route 34. is situated 3 miles east of West City.

Village
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 4.0.
Hanaford is a village in , , . The population was 320 at the 2020 census. Hanaford is also known as . is situated 6 miles southeast of West City.

West City

Latitude
37.99394° or 37° 59′ 38″ north
Longitude
-88.93507° or 88° 56′ 6″ west
Population
744
Elevation
456 feet (139 metres)
Open location code
869HX3V7+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153687786
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4252752
Wiki­data ID
Q2616348
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“West City” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وست سيتي”
  • Basque: “West City”
  • Catalan: “West City”
  • Cebuano: “West City”
  • Chinese: “West City”
  • Chinese: “西城 (伊利諾伊州)”
  • Chinese: “西城”
  • Dutch: “West City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وست سيتى”
  • French: “West City”
  • German: “West City”
  • Gilaki: “وست سيتي (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “وست سيتي”
  • Haitian: “West City, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “West City”
  • Italian: “West City”
  • Ladin: “West City”
  • Mazanderani: “ویست سیتی (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “ویست سیتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “West City”
  • Polish: “West City”
  • Portuguese: “West City”
  • Serbian: “Вест Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “West City, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “West City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وزت سیتی، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “West City”
  • Ukrainian: “Вест-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “ویسٹ سٹی، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “ویسٹ سٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Tây, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Tây”
  • Vietnamese: “West City, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “West City”
  • Volapük: “West City”
  • Welsh: “West City, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “West City”

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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 “West City”. Photo: Rastapopulous, CC BY-SA 3.0.