Batavia
Batavia is a city mainly in Kane County and partly in DuPage County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located in the Chicago metropolitan area, it was founded in 1833 and is the oldest city in Kane County.Photo: G LeTourneau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Batavia Depot Museum and Fabyan Windmill.
Batavia Depot Museum
Museum
Photo: G LeTourneau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Batavia Depot Museum is a museum in Batavia, Illinois that was once the town's primary train station. It was the first of many depots built by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
Fabyan Windmill
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Jauerback, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fabyan Windmill is an authentic, working Dutch windmill dating from the 1850s located in Geneva, Kane County, Illinois, just north of Batavia, Illinois, off Illinois Route 25.
Batavia High School
School
Photo: Dhalls, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Batavia High School, or BHS, is a public four-year high school located in Batavia, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. It was created by the merger of West Batavia High School and East Batavia High School in May 1911 and is part of Batavia Public School District 101; the East Batavia and West Batavia athletic programs merged in 1909.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Geneva and North Aurora.
Geneva
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Geneva is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Illinois, United States. It is located in the far western side of the Chicago suburbs. Per the 2020 census, the population was 21,393.
North Aurora
Town
North Aurora is a village in Kane County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Aurora. Per the 2020 census, the population was 18,261. North Aurora maintains its own public library district, fire district, and police department, but public spaces and parks are managed by the neighboring Fox Valley Park District. North Aurora is situated 3 miles south of Batavia.
Batavia
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Fox River Valley, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.85° or 41° 51′ 0″ northLongitude
-88.3126° or 88° 18′ 45″ westPopulation
26,100Elevation
715 feet (218 metres)Named after
Batavian RepublicUnited Nations Location Code
US BTAOpen location code
86HHVM2P+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 153692098OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4884192Wikidata ID
Q576876
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Batavia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باتافيا,إلينوي”
- Arabic: “باتافيا”
- Basque: “Batavia”
- Catalan: “Batavia”
- Cebuano: “Batavia”
- Chechen: “Бетейвия”
- Chinese: “Batavia”
- Chinese: “巴塔維亞市”
- Chinese: “巴达维亚”
- Chinese: “巴达维亚市”
- Chinese: “巴達維亞 (伊利諾州)”
- Chinese: “巴達維亞”
- Chinese: “巴達維亞市”
- Croatian: “Batavia”
- Danish: “Batavia”
- Dutch: “Batavia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “باتافيا”
- French: “Batavia”
- German: “Batavia”
- Gilaki: “باتاویا (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “باتاویا”
- Greek: “Μπατέιβια”
- Haitian: “Batavia, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Batavia”
- Hebrew: “בטוויה”
- Indonesian: “Batavia, Illinois”
- Indonesian: “Batavia”
- Irish: “Batavia”
- Italian: “Batavia”
- Japanese: “バタヴィア”
- Japanese: “バタビア”
- Korean: “버테이비아”
- Ladin: “Batavia”
- Mazanderani: “بتیویا (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “بتیویا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Batavia”
- Newari: “बाटाभिया (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “बाटाभिया, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “बाटाभिया, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “बाटाभिया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Batavia”
- Norwegian: “Batavia”
- Persian: “بتیویا، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “بتیویا”
- Polish: “Batavia”
- Portuguese: “Batavia”
- Russian: “Батавия”
- Russian: “Батейвия”
- Serbian: “Батејвија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Batavia, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Batavia”
- Slovenian: “Batavia”
- South Azerbaijani: “بتیویا، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Batavia”
- Swedish: “Batavia, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Batavia”
- Tatar: “Бетейвия”
- Turkish: “Batavia, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Batavia”
- Ukrainian: “Бетейвія”
- Urdu: “بٹاویا، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “بٹاویا”
- Uzbek: “Batavia”
- Uzbek: “Батавиа”
- Vietnamese: “Batavia, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Batavia”
- Volapük: “Batavia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Batavia, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Batavia”
- Welsh: “Batavia, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Batavia”
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