Nauvoo
Nauvoo is a small city in Hancock County, Illinois, United States, on the Mississippi River near Fort Madison, Iowa. The population of Nauvoo was 950 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,160 residents
- Description: city and historic district in Hancock County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Commerce”, “Commerce City”, “Nauvoo, IL”, “Nauvoo, Illinois”, and “Venus”
- Postal code: 62354
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nauvoo Illinois Temple and Joseph Smith Mansion House.
Nauvoo Illinois Temple
Temple
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The Nauvoo Illinois Temple is the 113th dedicated temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The intent to build the temple was announced on April 4, 1999, by church president Gordon B.
Joseph Smith Mansion House
Building
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Joseph Smith Mansion House in Nauvoo, Illinois, is a large residence first occupied by Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Smith used the house as a personal home, a public boarding house, a hotel, and as a site for the performance of temple ordinances.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Montrose.
Montrose
Village
Photo: Billwhittaker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Montrose is a city in Lee County, Iowa. The population was 738 at the time of the 2020 census. The town is located on the Mississippi River. It is part of the Fort Madison-Keokuk Micropolitan Statistical Area. Montrose is situated 2 miles southwest of Nauvoo.
Nauvoo
- Categories: city in the United States, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Hancock, Western Illinois, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.5498° or 40° 32′ 59″ northLongitude
-91.3823° or 91° 22′ 56″ westPopulation
1,160Elevation
650 feet (198 metres)United Nations Location Code
US NV7Open location code
86GCGJX9+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 151389108OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Nauvoo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ناوفو (إلينوي)”
- Arabic: “ناوفو”
- Armenian: “Նավու”
- Basque: “Nauvoo”
- Catalan: “Nauvoo”
- Cebuano: “Nauvoo”
- Chechen: “Нову”
- Chinese: “Nauvoo”
- Chinese: “诺伍”
- Chinese: “諾伍”
- Croatian: “Nauvoo”
- Czech: “Nauvoo”
- Dagbani: “Nauvoo”
- Danish: “Nauvoo”
- Dutch: “Nauvoo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ناوفو”
- Esperanto: “Nauvoo”
- Estonian: “Nauvoo”
- Finnish: “Nauvoo”
- French: “Nauvoo”
- Galician: “Nauvoo, Illinois”
- Galician: “Nauvoo”
- German: “Nauvoo”
- Gilaki: “ناووو (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “ناووو”
- Haitian: “Nauvoo, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Nauvoo”
- Hebrew: “נָאווּ”
- Ido: “Nauvoo, Illinois”
- Ido: “Nauvoo”
- Irish: “Nauvoo”
- Italian: “Nauvoo”
- Japanese: “ナヴー”
- Japanese: “ノーヴー”
- Japanese: “ノーブー”
- Japanese: “ノーブー市”
- Korean: “노부”
- Ladin: “Nauvoo”
- Malagasy: “Nauvoo”
- Mazanderani: “نائوو (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “نائوو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nauvoo”
- Newari: “नाउभो (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “नाउभो, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “नाउभो, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “नाउभो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nauvoo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nauvoo i Illinois”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nauvoo”
- Persian: “نائوو، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “نائوو”
- Polish: “Nauvoo”
- Portuguese: “Nauvoo”
- Romanian: “Nauvoo, Illinois”
- Romanian: “Nauvoo”
- Russian: “Наву”
- Russian: “Нову”
- Serbian: “Нову”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nauvoo, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nauvoo”
- Slovak: “Nauvoo”
- Slovenian: “Nauvoo”
- South Azerbaijani: “نائوو، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Nauvoo (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Nauvoo”
- Swedish: “Nauvoo, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Nauvoo”
- Talysh: “Novu”
- Tatar: “Нову”
- Turkish: “Nauvoo”
- Ukrainian: “Нову”
- Urdu: “ناؤوو، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “ناؤوو”
- Uzbek: “Nauvoo”
- Uzbek: “Наувоо”
- Vietnamese: “Nauvoo, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Nauvoo”
- Volapük: “Nauvoo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nauvoo, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nauvoo”
- Welsh: “Nauvoo, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Nauvoo”
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