Fountain, Illinois

Fountain
Unincorporated community
Name origin: Fountain Creek

Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Monroe
Precinct	15

Elevation	397 ft (121 m)
Coordinates	38°21′45″N 90°16′58″W / 38.36250°N 90.28278°W / 38.36250; -90.28278Coordinates: 38°21′45″N 90°16′58″W / 38.36250°N 90.28278°W / 38.36250; -90.28278

Timezone	CST (UTC-6)
- summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
Postal code	62295
Area code	618

Location of Fountain within Illinois

Fountain is an unincorporated community in the historic Moredock Precinct of Monroe County, Illinois, United States, located just off Bluff Road in the American Bottoms, situated next to the levees lining Fountain Creek as it makes its way west toward the Mississippi River.

Illinois Metro-East region

Counties	Bond Calhoun Clinton Jersey Macoupin Madison Monroe St. Clair

Major Cities (10,000+)	Alton Belleville Cahokia Centralia Collinsville East St. Louis Edwardsville Fairview Heights Glen Carbon Godfrey Granite City O'Fallon Swansea Wood River

Cities (5,000-10,000)	Bethalto Carlinville Centreville Columbia East Alton Highland Jerseyville Maryville Mascoutah Pontoon Beach Shiloh Staunton Troy Washington Park Waterloo

Cities (1,000-5,000)	Alorton Aviston Beckemeyer Breese Brighton Carlyle Caseyville Dupo Fairmont City Freeburg Germantown Hartford Lebanon Madison Marissa Millstadt New Athens New Baden Rosewood Heights Roxana Smithton South Roxana Trenton Valmeyer Venice Wamac

Interstates in the Metro-East	I-55 I-64 I-70 I-255 I-270

Airports/Military Bases	MidAmerica St. Louis Airport St. Louis Downtown Airport St. Louis Metro-East Airport St. Louis Regional Airport Scott Air Force Base

List of Colleges in the Metro-East	Kaskaskia College Lewis and Clark Community College Blackburn College McKendree University Principia College Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Southwestern Illinois College

Sports teams based in the Metro East	Gateway Grizzlies (baseball: Frontier League)

Municipalities and communities of Monroe County, Illinois, United States

County seat: Waterloo

Cities	Columbia‡ Waterloo

Villages	Fults Hecker‡ Maeystown Valmeyer

Unincorporated communities	Ames Burksville Burksville Station Chaflin Bridge Foster Pond Fountain Harrisonville Madonnaville Merrimac Monroe City New Hanover Renault St. Joe Tipton Wartburg

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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