Flora, Illinois

City: Flora

County: Clay

State: Illinois

Lat/Long: 38.6667, -88.4833

Flora is located in the southeastern portion of central Illinois just over thirty miles northeast of Mount Vernon, Illinois. The city was named after Flora Whittleby, the daughter of a member of the company that surveyed the site in 1854 for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. The U.S. Post Office Department established a post office in Flora in September 1855.

James N. Adams, comp., Illinois Place Names (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1989), 362; Webster's New Geographical Dictionary (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1988), 400; Edward Callary, Place Names of Illinois (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009), 123.