Fults, IL

Fults is a village in the Renault precinct of Monroe County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 28 residents. Fults is located entirely within the American Bottom floodplain of the Mississippi River. The village was named after Jacob Fults, born in Pennsylvania in 1793 to German immigrants. In Fults, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Fults, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. Fults, after leaving the service of the United States during the War of 1812 in 1817, settled on Moredock Lake. Fults is 15 miles south-southwest of Waterloo, the county seat, and 9 miles northwest of Prairie du Rocher. The Mississippi River is 3 miles to the southwest, while the bluffs that mark the edge of the floodplain rise a quarter mile to the northeast of the village.