Mahomet, Illinois Lake of the Woods, Mahomet, Illinois Lake of the Woods, Mahomet, Illinois Mahomet is positioned in Champaign County, Illinois Mahomet - Mahomet Show map of Champaign County, Illinois Mahomet /m h m t/ is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
Mahomet is positioned approximately ten miles west of Champaign at the junction of Interstate 74 and IL 47.
According to the 2010 census, Mahomet has a total region of 9.086 square miles (23.53 km2), of which 9.02 square miles (23.36 km2) (or 99.27%) is territory and 0.066 square miles (0.17 km2) (or 0.73%) is water. The Early American Museum at Lake of the Woods forest preserve. The ethnic makeup of the village was 98.18% White, 0.14% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.59% Asian, 0.39% from other competitions, and 0.59% from two or more competitions.
In the village, the populace was spread out with 34.3% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 31.8% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 6.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of 2010 Mahomet had a populace of 7,258.
The ethnic and ethnic composition of the populace was 95.9% white, 0.6% African-American, 0.2% Native American, 1.8% Asian, 0.4% reporting some other race and 1.1% reporting two or more competitions.
"HI Tower" at the Champaign County Forest Preserve District Headquarters in Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve, Mahomet, Illinois.
The most prominent tourist attractions in Mahomet are all Champaign County Forest Preserve District properties: Lake of the Woods Park and its award-winning Hartwell C.
Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve is a 900 acres (3.6 km2) park along the Sangamon River.
Within Lake of the Woods Park is the Museum of the Grand Prairie (formerly called the Early American Museum), which has a compilation that features life in the 19th and early 20th century in East-Central Illinois.
The park has two large lakes, one of them being the biggest lake in Champaign County and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of forest along the Sangamon River.
The Mahomet School District has 2,980 students and 183 instructors spread over five schools. Lake of the Woods forest preserve veiled bridge. The village of Mahomet was first settled in 1832 on the banks of the Sangamon River.
The initial village name was Middletown, possibly because it is half-way between the suburbs of Danville and Bloomington. In 1871, the name of the village was changed to Mahomet because there was already another Middletown in Illinois, which was causing mail problems. Most early pioneer came from Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania and chose to reside in Mahomet because there was abundant water from the Sangamon River and abundant trees.
Currently, most inhabitants commute 10 miles (16 km) to the town/city of Champaign to work, although the village has a grow small company district.
The Sangamon River as viewed from the veiled bridge at Lake of the Woods forest preserve.
Another hypothesis is that he Illinois town's name derives from the "Mahomet Lodge," the small-town Masonic Lodge at the time the town was searching for a new name. Its use as the name of the lodge was a manifestation of the Freemasons' liberal use of theological names and stonemason tools and symbols. An alternative theory states that the name Mahomet was arbitrarily assigned when the conflicting names were noted by the US Postal Service. Porter, who had Connecticut roots, as the one who denominated both the new village as Middletown (after a town in Connecticut) and the postal service as Mahomet (after Mahomet Weyonomon a tribal chieftain from Connecticut).
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
2010 census report for Mahomet Champaign County Forest Preserve District - Helping Preserve Nature in Champaign County Village of Mahomet, Illinois.
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