Lake Petersburg
Lake Petersburg is a census-designated place in Menard County, Illinois, United States. Its population was 740 as of the 2020 census. The unincorporated community centers on a small reservoir, which is used extensively by residents for recreation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Residential area
- Description: human settlement in Menard County, Illinois, United States of America
- Also known as: “Lake Petersburg, IL” and “Lake Petersburg, Illinois”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lincoln’s New Salem.
Lincoln’s New Salem
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site is a reconstruction of the former village of New Salem in Menard County, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. Lincoln’s New Salem is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Lake Petersburg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Petersburg and Tallula.
Petersburg
Photo: Matt Turner, CC BY 2.0.
Petersburg is a city in and the county seat of Menard County, Illinois, United States, on the bluffs and part of the floodplain overlooking the Sangamon River.
Tallula
Village
Tallula is a village in Menard County, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1857 by William G. Greene. The population was 434 at the 2020 census, down from 488 in 2010. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Tallula is situated 5 miles southwest of Lake Petersburg.
Lake Petersburg
- Category: census-designated place in the United States
- Location: Menard, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.98386° or 39° 59′ 2″ northLongitude
-89.85939° or 89° 51′ 34″ westPopulation
719Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PB2Open location code
86FGX4MR+G6OpenStreetMap ID
way 1458170855OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Lake Petersburg” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Lake Petersburg”
- Chechen: “Лейк-Питерсбург”
- Chinese: “彼得斯堡湖 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “彼得斯堡湖”
- French: “Lake Petersburg”
- German: “Lake Petersburg”
- Gilaki: “لیک پيترزبرگ (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “لیک پيترزبرگ”
- Irish: “Lake Petersburg”
- Italian: “Lake Petersburg”
- Ladin: “Lake Petersburg”
- Persian: “لیک پیترزبرگ، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “لیک پیترزبرگ”
- Polish: “Lake Petersburg”
- Serbian: “Лејк Петерсбург”
- Serbian: “Лејк Питерсбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Petersburg, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Petersburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “لیک پیترزبرق، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Lake Petersburg”
- Tatar: “Лейк-Питерсбург”
- Ukrainian: “Лейк-Пітерсбург”
- Urdu: “لیک پیٹیرسبرگ، الینیوائے”
- Welsh: “Llyn Petersburg”
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