Blue Mound (Blue Mound)
Blue Mound is a village in Macon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,133 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Decatur, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Blue Mound is located in southwestern Macon County at 39.69972°N, -89.12194°W (39.699677, -89.122075). Illinois Route 48 passes through the village, leading northeast 14 mi to Decatur, the county seat, and southwest the same distance to Taylorville.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Blue Mound has a total area of 0.59 sqmi, all land.
One and a half miles northwest of the village is the Blue Mound, a glacial kame, a cone-shaped gravel hill rising 80 ft above the surrounding farmland. Surrounded by the Griswold Conservation Area, park and camping place, the mound is estimated to date from about 130,000 years ago in geologic time from melting of glacier ice. It is one of a group of glacial mounds in the Blue Mound area.
Blue Mound is located in southwestern Macon County at 39.69972°N, -89.12194°W (39.699677, -89.122075). Illinois Route 48 passes through the village, leading northeast 14 mi to Decatur, the county seat, and southwest the same distance to Taylorville.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Blue Mound has a total area of 0.59 sqmi, all land.
One and a half miles northwest of the village is the Blue Mound, a glacial kame, a cone-shaped gravel hill rising 80 ft above the surrounding farmland. Surrounded by the Griswold Conservation Area, park and camping place, the mound is estimated to date from about 130,000 years ago in geologic time from melting of glacier ice. It is one of a group of glacial mounds in the Blue Mound area.
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