Tag: Walnut Hill

Walnut Hill is a village in Marion County, Illinois, United States. The population was 109 at the 2000 census.
Walnut Hill is located at 38°28′39″N 89°2′44″W / 38.4775°N 89.04556°W / 38.4775; -89.04556 (38.477541, -89.045513).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.0 km), all of it land.
Walnut Hill is located near the southern boundary of Marion County, next to Jefferson County. The county boundary is the baseline of the Third Principal Meridian, also called the Centralia Baseline. The survey of this area was begun as early as 1804.
To the north of Walnut Hill is Raccoon Creek, a tributary of the Kaskaskia River. To the south is the Big Muddy River, a small creek at the northernmost limit of its watershed. Walnut Hill is thus on the Kaskaskia/Big Muddy divide. That divide is a ridge that formed a natural, pioneer highway from Sparta to Kell, perhaps properly called the “Highway to Kell”.
Walnut Hill was at one time the…