Effingham
Effingham is a city in Effingham County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. It is in South Central Illinois. Its population was 12,252 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Effingham station
Railway station
Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Effingham station 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 Kansas City and either Washington D.C. or New York City until 1979.
Effingham County Cultural Center and Museum
Courthouse
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The Effingham County Cultural Center and Museum is a historic building and museum located in Effingham, the county seat of Effingham County, Illinois. Built in 1871, the building was originally the Effingham County Courthouse.
The Cross at the Crossroads
Wayside cross
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cross at the Crossroads, also known as The Cross, is a 198-foot tall, 113-foot spanning cross in Effingham, Illinois. It was built in 2001 after its creator was inspired by a similar cross in Groom, Texas.
Effingham
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Douglas Township, Effingham, Central Illinois, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.1201° or 39° 7′ 13″ northLongitude
-88.5435° or 88° 32′ 37″ westPopulation
12,400Elevation
597 feet (182 metres)United Nations Location Code
US EFIOpen location code
86FH4FC4+3JOpenStreetMap ID
node 153582081OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “एफिंगह्याम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Effingham”
- Persian: “افینگهام، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “افینگهام”
- Polish: “Effingham”
- Portuguese: “Effingham”
- 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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