Lacroix Rock
Lacroix Rock is a memorial in Peoria City Township, Illinois. Lacroix Rock is situated nearby to Galena Marina, as well as near the sports venue River City Raceway.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport and Forest Park Nature Preserve.
Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport
Aerodrome
Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport is a public use airport located seven nautical miles north of the central business district of Peoria, a city in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport is situated 2 miles west of Lacroix Rock.
Forest Park Nature Preserve
Park
Photo: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Forest Park Nature Preserve is situated 1½ miles south of Lacroix Rock.
Forest Park Nature Center
Photo: NatFee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Forest Park Nature Center is a staffed nature center in Peoria Heights, a suburb of Peoria, Illinois. The nature center and surrounding parkland is operated by the Peoria Park District to interpret and celebrate the elevational bluffs and oak savannahs of the Peoria Lake watershed, which in CE 1492 was one of the most fertile and productive ecosystems known to humankind. Forest Park Nature Center is situated 2 miles south of Lacroix Rock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mossville and Peoria Heights.
Mossville
Hamlet
Mossville is an unincorporated community and Census-designated place between Peoria and Chillicothe in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Mossville is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area and resides closely to the northern part of Peoria. Mossville is situated 2 miles north of Lacroix Rock.
Peoria Heights
Hamlet
Photo: Roger Wollstadt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Peoria Heights is a village lying in Peoria County in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, Peoria Heights had a population of 5,908. Peoria Heights is a suburb of Peoria, is sometimes referred to as Uptown, and is surrounded by the city except for its eastern boundary on Peoria Lake, a relatively wider section of the Illinois River. Peoria Heights is situated 3 miles south of Lacroix Rock.
Alta
Hamlet
Alta is an unincorporated community on the northwest border of Peoria in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Alta is 8 miles north-northwest of downtown Peoria. Alta is situated 3½ miles northwest of Lacroix Rock.
Lacroix Rock
- Type: Memorial
- Category: historic site
- Location: Peoria City Township, Peoria, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.78793° or 40° 47′ 17″ northLongitude
-89.57907° or 89° 34′ 45″ westOpen location code
86GGQCQC+59OpenStreetMap ID
node 7994060562OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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