Marblehead is an
unincorporated community in
Adams County,
Illinois, United States, just south of
Quincy.
Illinois State Route 57
Illinois Route 57 is a north–south state highway in western Illinois. It runs from Interstate 172 in Fall Creek to U.S. Route 24 and Illinois Route 104 in Quincy, a distance of .
Route description
Illinois 57 runs from Fall Creek north ...
is the main auxiliary route through the town and travels north to the
business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...
of Quincy or south to
Interstate 72 (''near
Hannibal, Missouri'').
The community is part of the Quincy, IL–
MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Lake Marblehead
Marblehead is prone to flooding and during the
Flood of 2008
The June 2008 Midwestern United States floods were flooding events which affected portions of the Midwestern United States. After months of heavy precipitation, a number of rivers overflowed their banks for several weeks at a time and broke thro ...
, the town was flooded with water from the
Mississippi River. A temporary "''
Lake Marblehead''" was formed when the flood plain flooded. It was named so as a
satire joke.
WGEM.com: Quincy News, Weather, Sports, and Radio -Going with the flow in Marblehead
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References
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Unincorporated communities in Adams County, Illinois
Quincy, Illinois micropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Illinois
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