Lotus, Illinois

Lotus, Illinois
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 40°19′08″N 88°27′21″W / 40.31889°N 88.45583°W / 40.31889; -88.45583Coordinates: 40°19′08″N 88°27′21″W / 40.31889°N 88.45583°W / 40.31889; -88.45583
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Champaign
Elevation	745 ft (227 m)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s)	217
GNIS feature ID	412671^[1]

Lotus is an unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Lotus is located along a railroad line southwest of Foosland.

The community has long talked of becoming incorporated, but due to the high costs of the process its few residents have always opted against it. Currently home to 102 residents, Lotus is named after Captain James Ruthermore Lotus who was a soldier in the Civil War. His son, Abraham Lotus moved to the area well after the war and established the town, naming it after himself and his father.

While most of the residents work and shop outside of town, there are a few local businesses and bars. The largest employer in Lotus is Fergueson & Sons factory, where they make novelty bookmarks that are sold exclusively to Oriental Trading in Omaha, Nebraska.

Lotus has a sister unincorporated city program with the residents of Hyrum, Ontario. The program was started after Lotus resident Phyllis Flankmen was driving through Canada on her way to Niagara Falls with her sister Blaire when they needed to stop for gas. Since neither town has a council, mayor or anything of the like, Phyllis took it upon herself to set up this program with Hyrum resident Dorris DeLaney. Phyllis and Dorris exchanged homemade knitted blankets that symbolize the unity between these two unincorporated towns.

References

↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.

Municipalities and communities of Champaign County, Illinois, United States

County seat: Urbana

Cities	Champaign Urbana

Villages	Allerton‡ Bondville Broadlands Fisher Foosland Gifford Homer Ivesdale‡ Longview Ludlow Mahomet Ogden Pesotum Philo Rantoul Royal Sadorus Savoy Sidney St. Joseph Thomasboro Tolono

Townships	Ayers Brown Champaign Colfax Compromise Condit Crittenden Cunningham East Bend Harwood Hensley Kerr Ludlow Mahomet Newcomb Ogden Pesotum Philo Rantoul Raymond Sadorus Scott Sidney Somer South Homer St. Joseph Stanton Tolono Urbana

CDPs	Lake of the Woods Penfield Seymour

Other unincorporated communities	Augerville Block Bongard Dailey Deers Dewey Dickerson Dillsburg Fairland‡ Flatville Fulls Gerald Giblin Glover Jimtown Leverett Lotus Mayview Mira Parkville Pauline Prospect Rising Rutherford Sellers Sloan Station Staley State Road Tipton Tomlinson Wilbur Heights

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

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