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Ramsey Railroad Prairie

Nature Preserve Area

8

County

Fayette

Location And Access

North of Ramsey along an abandoned railroad. Part of Sec. 8, T8N, R1E, 3 PM.

Description

Dry-mesic and mesic prairie of the Effingham Plain Section of the Southern Till Plain Natural Division.

Ownership

Illinois Department of Natural Resources, 1 Natural Resources Way, Springfield, IL 62701 (217/785-8774); Site Superintendent, Ramsey Lake State Park, P.O. Box 97, Ramsey 62080 (618/423-2215)

Dedicated

October 1997

Size

11.26 acres nature preserve

Topographic Quad

Ramsey

Topo Map

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