Effingham

Effingham is a city in , United States, and its county seat. It is in South Central Illinois. Its population was 12,252 at the 2020 census.
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  • Type: Town with 12,400 residents
  • Description: city in Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Effingham, IL” and “Effingham, Illinois”
  • Postal code: 62401

Places of Interest

Highlights include Effingham station and Effingham County Cultural Center and Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an Amtrak intercity train station in Effingham, Illinois, United States. The station contains three houses, at the CSXT St. Louis Line Subdivision crossing that once served Amtrak's former National Limited line between and either Washington D.C. or until 1979.

Courthouse
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The is a historic building and museum located in Effingham, the county seat of . Built in 1871, the building was originally the Effingham County Courthouse.

Wayside cross
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a large roadside Christian cross sculpture off the intersection of Interstate 57 and Interstate 70 in Effingham, Illinois, United States.

Effingham

Latitude
39.1201° or 39° 7′ 13″ north
Longitude
-88.5435° or 88° 32′ 37″ west
Population
12,400
Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US EFI
Open location code
86FH4FC4+3J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153582081
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4237727
Wiki­data ID
Q577958
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Satellite Map

Discover Effingham from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Effingham” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إفينغم”
  • Basque: “Effingham”
  • Bengali: “এফিংহাম”
  • Catalan: “Effingham”
  • Cebuano: “Effingham”
  • Chechen: “Эффингем”
  • Chinese: “Effingham”
  • Chinese: “埃芬漢 (伊利諾伊州)”
  • Chinese: “埃芬漢”
  • Croatian: “Effingham”
  • Dagbani: “Effingham”
  • Danish: “Effingham”
  • Dutch: “Effingham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “افينجم”
  • French: “Effingham”
  • German: “Effingham”
  • Gilaki: “افینگهم (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “افینگهم”
  • Greek: “Έφινγκχαμ”
  • Haitian: “Effingham, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Effingham”
  • Hausa: “Effingham, Illinois”
  • Hausa: “Effingham”
  • Hungarian: “Effingham”
  • Ido: “Effingham, Illinois”
  • Ido: “Effingham”
  • Irish: “Effingham”
  • Italian: “Effingham”
  • Japanese: “エッフィンガム”
  • Japanese: “エフィンガム”
  • Ladin: “Effingham”
  • Mazanderani: “افینگ‌هام (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “افینگ‌هام”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Effingham”
  • Newari: “एफिंगह्याम (इलियोनोई)”
  • Newari: “एफिंगह्याम, इलिनोइ”
  • Newari: “एफिंगह्याम, इलियोनोई”
  • Newari: “एफिंगह्याम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Effingham”
  • Norwegian: “Effingham”
  • Persian: “افینگ‌هام، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “افینگ‌هام”
  • Polish: “Effingham”
  • Portuguese: “Effingham”
  • Russian: “Ефингхам”
  • Serbian: “Ефингхам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Effingham, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Effingham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “افینقهام، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Effingham (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Effingham”
  • Swedish: “Effingham, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “Effingham”
  • Tatar: “Эффингем”
  • Turkish: “Effingham, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Effingham”
  • Ukrainian: “Еффінгем”
  • Urdu: “ایفنگھم، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “ایفنگھم”
  • Uzbek: “Effingham”
  • Uzbek: “Еффингҳам”
  • Vietnamese: “Effingham, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Effingham”
  • Volapük: “Effingham”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Effingham, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Effingham”
  • Welsh: “Effingham, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Effingham”

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