Creal Springs, IL

Creal Springs is a city in Williamson County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 505 residents. In the early 19th century, Lusk's Ferry Road was an important road that connected Fort Kaskaskia with Lusk's Ferry on the Ohio River. The original survey maps of Illinois show a short segment of this road south of Creal Springs, in Johnson County. Marion CUSD operates the Adams School or Creal Springs Elementary School. Secondary schools are Marion Junior High and Marion High School. The short version is that Creal Springs carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Creal Springs: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Creal Springs is located in southeastern Williamson County, on the north slope of the Shawnee Hills. Creal Springs includes the road leading south out of Creal Springs toward Lake.