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About Bone Gap, IL

Bone Gap is a tiny farming community in southeastern Illinois where Route 15 provides the main access through Edwards County's flat prairie. Most visitors arrive via longer routes from regional centers, typically using I-64 to Route 15, then county roads north to reach the settlement. The area's continental climate supports local agriculture across the scattered rural landscape. The town gets its distinctive name from an early geographic feature where settlers discovered animal bones in a gap between hills.

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Bone Gap, IL is in United States, at 38.445, -87.998 - about 22 km south of Parkersburg, IL.

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The closest airport to Bone Gap, IL is Evansville Regional Airport, 89 km (about 1 h 14 min by car).

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