Wood River (Ill.)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
ווד ריבר (אילינוי)
Name (Latin)
Wood River (Ill.)
Other forms of name
Woodriver (Ill.)
Coordinates
-90.0773261 -90.0773261 38.8631433 38.8631433 (gooearth )
W0900551 W0900551 N0385140 N0385140 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 158242306
Wikidata: Q185601
Library of congress: n 00112018
Sources of Information
  • GNIS Jan. 2, 2000(Wood River, Illinois, Madison County, pop pl., 38°51ʹ40ʺN/90°05ʹ51ʺW)
  • GeoNames, Nov. 18, 2014(ppl; N 38° 51' 40'' W 90° 5' 51''; also civil township named Wood River in Madison County, IL)
  • Maps of Madison County, Alton and surrounding areas, 198-:map (Woodriver; Wood River)
  • GNIS Jan. 2, 2000(Wood River, Illinois, Madison County, pop pl., 38p0s51ʹ40ʺN/90p0s05ʹ51ʺW)
  • Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1998(Wood River; Madison; cites another as township)
  • Columbia gaz.(Wood River, city, Madison co., SW Ill., on the Mississippi R. 2 mi/3.2 km above its junction with the Missouri, 7 mi/11.3 km WNW of Edwardsville)
  • MW geog. dict.(Wood River, City, Madison co., SW Illinois, 15 mi. (25 km.) N of East S. Louis)

Wikipedia description:

Wood River is a city in Madison County, Illinois. The population was 10,464 as of the 2020 census. Wood River developed as a company town around a Standard Oil refinery built in 1907 and 1908 and was chartered as a city in 1923. The community lies near the site of Camp River Dubois, the winter staging camp of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, a heritage reflected in the city's motto, "Progressing in the Spirit of Lewis & Clark."

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