Fort Sheridan Water Tower
The Fort Sheridan Water Tower is a water tower in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Tower
- Description: historic United States Army base water tower
- Also known as: “Water Tower, Building 49”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fort Sheridan station and Highwood station.
Fort Sheridan station
Railway station
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Fort Sheridan station is one of two stations on Metra's Union Pacific North Line located in the Fort Sheridan neighborhood in Highwood, Illinois. The station is officially located at 461 West Old Elm Road, and is 25.7 miles away from Ogilvie Transportation Center, the southern terminus of the Union Pacific North Line. Fort Sheridan station is situated 2,500 feet west of Fort Sheridan Water Tower.
Highwood station
Railway station
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Highwood is one of two stations on Metra's Union Pacific North Line located in Highwood, Illinois. Highwood is located at 317 Green Bay Road. Highwood is 24.5 miles away from Ogilvie Transportation Center, the southern terminus of the Union Pacific North Line. Highwood station is situated 1 mile south of Fort Sheridan Water Tower.
Fort Sheridan National Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Nick Number, CC BY 4.0.
Fort Sheridan National Cemetery was established in 1889 on the grounds of Fort Sheridan, a United States Army installation that had been established two years earlier, in 1887, in Lake County, Illinois and remained an active U.S. Army installation until 1993. Fort Sheridan National Cemetery is situated 3,800 feet northwest of Fort Sheridan Water Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Sheridan and Highwood.
Fort Sheridan
Hamlet
Photo: Teemu008, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fort Sheridan is a residential neighborhood within the cities of Lake Forest, Highwood, and Highland Park in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It was originally established as Fort Sheridan, an Army post named after Civil War cavalry general Philip Sheridan, to honor his services to Chicago.
Highwood
Village
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Highwood is a North Shore suburb of Chicago in Moraine Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,074.
Highland Park
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Highland Park is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, its population was 30,176. As a suburb of Chicago, Highland Park is located on the North Shore of the Chicago metropolitan area, about 25 miles north of downtown.
Fort Sheridan Water Tower
- Categories: water tower and historic site
- Location: Moraine Township, Lake, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.21656° or 42° 12′ 60″ northLongitude
-87.81198° or 87° 48′ 43″ westOpen location code
86JJ658Q+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 4817437871OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerWikidata ID
Q14687504
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