Lake Mendota

Lake Mendota is in LaSalle County, Illinois. Lake Mendota is situated nearby to the hamlet Henkel, as well as near Peterstown.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mendota station.

Mendota station

Railway station

Photo: Gfoley4, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mendota station is an Amtrak intercity train station at 783 Main Street, Mendota, Illinois, United States. The station was originally built on February 23, 1888, by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, as a replacement for the former Union Depot that was built in 1853 and burned down in 1885.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mendota and Clarion.

Mendota

Town

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Mendota is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States, in the state's north-central region. The population was 7,061 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Clarion

Locality

Clarion Township is one of twenty-five townships in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 410 and it contained 177 housing units. Clarion is situated 5 miles southwest of Lake Mendota.

Meriden

Hamlet

Meriden is an unincorporated community in LaSalle County, Illinois, and is located east of Mendota. The community has East 7th Street running north–south through the community, and North 44th Street making a T-intersection south of Meriden with East 7th Street. Meriden is situated 5 miles east of Lake Mendota.

Lake Mendota

Type: Body of water
Location: LaSalle County, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.55792° or 41° 33′ 29″ north

Longitude

-89.13105° or 89° 7′ 52″ west

Elevation

764 feet (233 metres)

Open location code

86HGHV59+5H

OpenStreetMap ID

way 40434315

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

GeoNames ID

4901954

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