Poverty Ridge is an unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States, about eleven miles northwest of Lewistown.Callary, Edward. Place Names of Illinois. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2008, 285. Its elevation is 633 feet (202 m), and it is located at (40.4619856, -90.3409579). The community is named for a line of hills near Seville, which likewise is named Poverty Ridge.
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