Princeton
Princeton is a city in and the county seat of Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,832 at the 2020 census. Princeton is part of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,560 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of Bureau County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Princeton, IL” and “Princeton, Illinois”
- Postal code: 61356
Places of Interest
Highlights include Apollo Theater and Princeton station.
Princeton station
Railway station
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Princeton station is an Amtrak intercity train station at 107 Bicentennial Drive in Princeton, Illinois. The station was built in 1911 by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and is listed as "Princeton City" on the Amtrak website and the List of Amtrak stations.
Captain Swift Covered Bridge
Bridge
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Captain Swift Covered Bridge is situated 2 miles northwest of Princeton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiskilwa and Wyanet.
Tiskilwa
Village
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Tiskilwa is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 728 at the 2022 census. It is part of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area. Tiskilwa is situated 6 miles south of Princeton.
Wyanet
Village
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Wyanet is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 886 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area. Wyanet is situated 6 miles west of Princeton.
Dover
Village
Dover is a village in Bureau County, Illinois, United States. The population was 135 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Ottawa Micropolitan Statistical Area. Dover is situated 6 miles northeast of Princeton.
Princeton
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Princeton Township, Bureau, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.36809° or 41° 22′ 5″ northLongitude
-89.46482° or 89° 27′ 53″ westPopulation
7,560Elevation
719 feet (219 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PCOOpen location code
86HG9G9P+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 153565195OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Princeton” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Princeton, Illinois”
- Afrikaans: “Princeton”
- Arabic: “برينستون”
- Basque: “Princeton”
- Catalan: “Princeton”
- Cebuano: “Princeton (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Illinois)”
- Cebuano: “Princeton”
- Chechen: “Принстон”
- Chinese: “Princeton”
- Chinese: “普林斯頓”
- Croatian: “Princeton”
- Czech: “Princeton”
- Danish: “Princeton”
- Dutch: “Princeton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برينستون”
- Esperanto: “Princeton”
- French: “Princeton”
- German: “Princeton”
- Gilaki: “پرینستن (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “پرینستن”
- Haitian: “Princeton, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Princeton”
- Hungarian: “Princeton”
- Ido: “Princeton, Illinois”
- Ido: “Princeton”
- Irish: “Princeton”
- Italian: “Princeton”
- Japanese: “プリンストン”
- Korean: “프린스턴”
- Ladin: “Princeton”
- Luxembourgish: “Princeton”
- Mazanderani: “پرینستون (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “پرینستون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Princeton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Princeton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Princeton”
- Persian: “پرینستون، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “پرینستون”
- Polish: “Princeton”
- Portuguese: “Princeton”
- Russian: “Принстон”
- Serbian: “Принстон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Princeton, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Princeton”
- Slovak: “Princeton”
- Slovenian: “Princeton”
- South Azerbaijani: “پرینستون، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Princeton (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Princeton”
- Swedish: “Princeton, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Princeton”
- Tatar: “Принстон”
- Ukrainian: “Принстон”
- Urdu: “پرنسٹن، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “پرنسٹن”
- Uzbek: “Princeton”
- Uzbek: “Принcетон”
- Vietnamese: “Princeton, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Princeton”
- Volapük: “Princeton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Princeton, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Princeton”
- Welsh: “Princeton, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Princeton”
- “Princeton”
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Highlights include Soldiers and Sailors Park and Bureau County Courthouse.
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