Dixon Township
Dixon Township is one of twenty-two townships in Lee County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 17,993 and it contained 7,283 housing units.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 17,400 residents
- Description: township in Lee County, Illinois
- Also known as: “Dixon Township, Lee County, Illinois” and “Township of Dixon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include KSB Hospital and Lowell Park.
KSB Hospital
Hospital
Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital is a hospital in Dixon, Illinois. KSB Hospital is an 80-bed acute care facility providing comprehensive ancillary services, including emergency medicine, obstetrics, inpatient psychiatry, a cardiovascular laboratory, outpatient surgery, inpatient surgery, and intensive care, among others.
Lowell Park
Nature reserve
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Lowell Park is a municipal park located along the Rock River in northern Dixon, Illinois. The city acquired the land for the park in 1906, when Carlotta Lowell donated the land to commemorate her parents' lives. Lowell Park is situated 2½ miles northwest of Dixon Township.
Dixon Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Dixon Municipal Airport, also known as Charles R. Walgreen Field, is a civil, public-use airport located in and owned by the City of Dixon, Illinois. The airport ranks #1 out of airports in Lee County, Illinois and #208 of 323 airports in Illinois. Dixon Municipal Airport is situated 2½ miles south of Dixon Township.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dixon and Grand Detour.
Dixon
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Dixon is called "The Petunia City" but is probably best known as the boyhood home of former US President Ronald Reagan.
Grand Detour
Village
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Grand Detour is an unincorporated census-designated place in Ogle County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 429. The village is named after an odd turn in the Rock River, which flows north past the village, rather than its normal southwestern course. Grand Detour is situated 3 miles northeast of Dixon Township.
Dixon Township
- Categories: township in the United States and township of Illinois
- Location: Lee, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Dixon Township” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dixon udalerria, Lee konderria (Illinois)”
- Basque: “Dixon udalerria, Lee konderria”
- Chinese: “迪克森鎮區 (伊利諾伊州李縣)”
- Chinese: “迪克森鎮區”
- French: “Dixon Township”
- German: “Dixon Township”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Dixon (condado de Lee, Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Dixon”
- Turkish: “Dixon Township”
- Urdu: “ڈکسن ٹاؤن شپ، لی کاؤنٹی، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “ڈکسن ٹاؤن شپ”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Dixon, Quận Lee, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Xã Dixon”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Meadows Park and Dixon State School Cemetery.
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