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Mahomet is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, sitting along the Sangamon River about 10 miles northwest of Champaign at the junction of Interstate 74 and Illinois Route 47.

Mahomet was first settled in 1832 on the banks of the Sangamon River, making it the oldest community in modern-day Champaign County.

The village was originally called Middletown, supposedly because it sat halfway between Danville and Bloomington, and founder Daniel T. Porter named its post office Mahomet after Mahomet Weyonomon, a Mohegan sachem from his native Connecticut.

The town officially took the name Mahomet in 1871 because another Middletown in Illinois was causing mail mix-ups, and it incorporated as a village in the early 1870s.

Mahomet had a population of 9,434 at the 2020 census, up sharply from 7,258 in 2010 and 4,877 in 2000, and Census Bureau estimates put it above 10,600 by 2024.

Mahomet has about 3,471 households with an average of about 2.89 people per household, and roughly 79.5% of its homes are owner-occupied.

The village's biggest attraction is the 900-acre Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve, a Champaign County Forest Preserve District park on the Sangamon River with a botanical garden, a lake, and a picturesque covered bridge.

Inside Lake of the Woods Park sits the Museum of the Grand Prairie, whose collection showcases life in 19th- and early-20th-century east-central Illinois.

Golfers in Mahomet play the Hartwell C. Howard Golf Course inside Lake of the Woods Park, one of the village's award-winning forest preserve amenities.

The nearby River Bend Forest Preserve covers 275 acres, and one of its two lakes is the largest lake in Champaign County.