Limestone

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Limestone

Total population

1,419

Founded

2006

Land area2.61 km²

Coordinates41.15°, -87.96°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Limestone is a village in Limestone Township, Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. It was incorporated in 2006 and had a population of 1,558 at the 2020 census.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Health (adults)

Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Merna Kennedy

actress (1908-1944)

Adam Kinzinger

American military officer and politician (born 1978)

Fred MacMurray

American actor (1908–1991)

Randy Spears

American pornographic actor

H

Harold Gray

American cartoonist (1894–1968)

K

Kristin Dattilo

American television actress

Vince Snowbarger

American politician

John Bevins Moisant

American aviator (1868–1910)

Jack Sikma

American basketball player-coach

Len Small

American politician (1862-1936)

Joie Ray

American middle and long distance runner (1894–1978)

V

Vernon Hughes

American physicist (1921-2003)

B

Bruce Vaughan

professional golfer

B

Bryan Dattilo

American actor

C

Casey Crosby

American baseball player

Léo Dandurand

sports owner and businessman in Montreal

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Illinois

• Bourbonnais
  4.7 mi away
• Bonfield
  5.1 mi away · pop. 473
• Irwin
  6.8 mi away · pop. 78
• Manteno
  9 mi away
• Aroma Park
  9.1 mi away
• Essex
  12.5 mi away · pop. 1,026
• Braidwood
  16.2 mi away · pop. 6,062
• Braceville
  17.1 mi away · pop. 860
• Papineau
  17.7 mi away
• Ashkum
  18.7 mi away · pop. 918
• Emington
  24.3 mi away · pop. 131
• Cullom
  24.8 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Limestone

Enumeration of fossils collected in the Niagara limestone at Chicago, Illinois

Alexander Winchell · 1865

Limestone resources of Illinois

Frank Krey · 1925

The paleontology of the Niagaran limestone in the Chicago area

Stuart Weller · 1900

Enumeration of fossils collected in Niagara limestone at Chicago, Illinois

Alexander Winchell · 1865

Lower Illinois Valley limestone houses

Eileen Smith Cunningham · 1976

High-purity Limestones in Illinois

J. E. Lamar · 1966

Ostracodes from shales in the Lingle Limestone (Middle Devonian) of southern Illinois

Bahman Saghatchian Shomali · 1972

Response of Illinois soils to limestone

Frederick Charles Bauer · 1934

Search results from Open Library.