Watson
A village in Effingham County, Illinois — population 732 as of 2020.
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Rantoul/PBL boys golfer advances to sectionals
MAHOMET – Noah Wolfe of the Rantoul/Paxton-Buckley-Loda boys golf team earned a trip to the IHSA Class 2A sectional round on Monday. Wolfe shot an 84 to finish 14th overall at the Mahomet-Seymour Regional. He will compete in the Effingham St. Anthony Sectional on Monday at the…
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September 16Effingham County residents resist OpenAI data center by directing traffic flows to a website
A citizen-led nonprofit aims to guide traffic flows towards a website that one volunteer describes as "an effort to provide truthful information around Project Camellia."
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Watson by the numbers
- Area
- 1.09 sq mi (2.83 km²)
- Median age
- 41.4
- Households
- 238
- Persons per household
- 2.6
- Median household income
- $74,167
- Median house value
- $100,000
- Office
- WATSON VILLAGE CLERK
- Address
- PO BOX 127, WATSON, IL 62473