Byron
Byron is a city in Ogle County, Illinois, United States, probably best known as the location of the Byron Nuclear Generating Station, one of the last nuclear power plants commissioned in the United States.Photo: Kranar drogin, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Village with 3,790 residents
- Description: city in Ogle County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Bloomingville”, “Byron, Illinois”, and “Fairview”
- Postal code: 61010
Places of Interest
Highlights include Soldier’s Monument and Byron High School.
Soldier’s Monument
Memorial
Photo: Kranar drogin, CC BY 2.5.
The Soldier's Monument in Byron, Illinois, is a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Located in Ogle County, Illinois, the monument is the city of Byron's only National Register listing.
Byron High School
School
Byron High School is located in the small city of Byron, Illinois population: 3,284. Byron High School is located 17 miles southwest from Rockford, Illinois, the state's third largest city.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stillman Valley.
Stillman Valley
Village
Photo: Kranar drogin, CC BY 2.5.
Stillman Valley is a village in Marion Township, Ogle County, Illinois, United States. It lies east of Byron, south of Rockford and west of Davis Junction. Stillman Valley is situated 4 miles east of Byron.
Byron
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Byron Township, Ogle, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.12697° or 42° 7′ 37″ northLongitude
-89.25566° or 89° 15′ 20″ westPopulation
3,790Elevation
728 feet (222 metres)United Nations Location Code
US XYBOpen location code
86JG4PGV+QPOpenStreetMap ID
node 153764186OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Byron” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بايرون”
- Basque: “Byron”
- Catalan: “Byron”
- Cebuano: “Byron”
- Chechen: “Байрон”
- Chinese: “Byron”
- Chinese: “拜倫”
- Croatian: “Byron”
- Danish: “Byron”
- Dutch: “Byron”
- French: “Byron”
- German: “Byron”
- Gilaki: “بایرن”
- Haitian: “Byron, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Byron”
- Hebrew: “ביירון”
- Ido: “Byron, Illinois”
- Ido: “Byron”
- Irish: “Byron”
- Italian: “Byron”
- Ladin: “Byron”
- Mazanderani: “بایرون (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “بایرون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Byron”
- Newari: “बाइरन (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “बाइरन, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “बाइरन, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “बाइरन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Byron”
- Norwegian: “Byron”
- Persian: “بایرون، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “بایرون”
- Polish: “Byron”
- Portuguese: “Byron”
- Russian: “Байрон”
- Serbian: “Бајрон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Byron, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Byron”
- South Azerbaijani: “بایرون، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Byron”
- Tatar: “Байрон (Иллинойс)”
- Tatar: “Байрон”
- Ukrainian: “Байрон”
- Urdu: “بائرن، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “بائرن”
- Uzbek: “Byron”
- Uzbek: “Бйрон”
- Vietnamese: “Byron, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Byron”
- Volapük: “Byron”
- Welsh: “Byron, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Byron”
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