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Alton Township

Alton

Alton is a charming river town in just across the from , Missouri. Once a blue collar town of heavy manufacturing, Alton has transformed itself into a tourist destination and wedding and reception resort of the Midwest.
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  • Type: Town with 25,700 residents
  • Description: city in Madison County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Alton, IL” and “Alton, Illinois”
  • Postal code: 62002

Places of Interest

Highlights include McPike Mansion and Alton Military Prison.

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, or Mount Lookout, is a mansion in Alton, which is part of the Metro-East region of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area in the U.S. state of .

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The was a prison located in Alton, , built in 1833 as the first state penitentiary in and closed in 1857. During the American Civil War, the prison was reopened in 1862 to accommodate the growing population of Confederate prisoners of war and ceased to be prison at the end of the war in 1865.

Bridge
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The is a cable-stayed bridge across the between and Alton, Illinois, United States. Named after explorer William Clark like the bridge it replaced, the bridge opened in 1994.

Alton

Latitude
38.8909° or 38° 53′ 27″ north
Longitude
-90.1843° or 90° 11′ 4″ west
Population
25,700
Elevation
492 feet (150 metres)
IATA airport code
ALN
United Nations Location Code
US ALN
Open location code
86CFVRR8+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151898967
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4232679
Wiki­data ID
Q443852
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Alton” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألتون”
  • Armenian: “Ալտոն”
  • Armenian: “Օլտոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Olton”
  • Basque: “Alton”
  • Belarusian: “Олтан”
  • Bulgarian: “Олтън”
  • Catalan: “Alton”
  • Cebuano: “Alton”
  • Chechen: “Олтон”
  • Chinese: “Alton (伊利諾伊州)”
  • Chinese: “Alton”
  • Chinese: “奥尔顿”
  • Chinese: “奧爾頓”
  • Chinese: “阿爾頓”
  • Croatian: “Alton”
  • Czech: “Alton”
  • Dagbani: “Alton”
  • Danish: “Alton”
  • Dutch: “Alton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “التون”
  • French: “Alton”
  • Galician: “Alton”
  • German: “Alton (Illinois)”
  • German: “Alton”
  • Gilaki: “آلتؤن (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “آلتؤن”
  • Greek: “Άλτον”
  • Haitian: “Alton, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Alton”
  • Hebrew: “אלטון”
  • Hungarian: “Alton”
  • Ido: “Alton, Illinois”
  • Ido: “Alton”
  • Irish: “Alton”
  • Italian: “Alton”
  • Japanese: “アルトン”
  • Japanese: “オールトン”
  • Korean: “올턴”
  • Ladin: “Alton”
  • Lithuanian: “Oltonas (Ilinojus)”
  • Lithuanian: “Oltonas”
  • Marathi: “आल्टन”
  • Mazanderani: “آلتون (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “آلتون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alton”
  • Newari: “एल्टन (इलियोनोई)”
  • Newari: “एल्टन, इलियोनोई”
  • Newari: “एल्टन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alton”
  • Norwegian: “Alton”
  • Persian: “آلتون، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “آلتون”
  • Polish: “Alton”
  • Portuguese: “Alton (illinois)”
  • Portuguese: “Alton”
  • Russian: “Альтон”
  • Russian: “Олтон”
  • Serbian: “Олтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alton, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alton”
  • Slovak: “Alton”
  • Slovenian: “Alton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلتون، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Alton (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Alton”
  • Swedish: “Alton, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “Alton”
  • Tatar: “Олтон”
  • Turkish: “Alton, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Alton”
  • Ukrainian: “Олтон”
  • Urdu: “آلٹن، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “آلٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Alton”
  • Vietnamese: “Alton, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Alton”
  • Volapük: “Alton (IL)”
  • Volapük: “Alton, IL”
  • Volapük: “Alton, Illinois”
  • Volapük: “Alton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alton, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alton”
  • Welsh: “Alton, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Alton”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Alton”. Photo: ksablan, CC BY-SA 2.0.