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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Illinois
- Counties
- Kane , DuPage
- Townships
- Aurora (Kane) , Batavia (Kane) , Blackberry (Kane) , Geneva (Kane) , Winfield (DuPage)
- Incorporated
- July 27, 1872
- Type
- Council–manager
- Total
- 10.83 sq mi (28.06 km )
- Land
- 10.65 sq mi (27.58 km )
- Water
- 0.19 sq mi (0.48 km )
- Elevation
- 715 ft (218 m)
- Density
- 2,450.5/sq mi (946.15/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 ( CDT )
- Zip codes
- 60510 and 60539
- Area code s
- 630 and 331
- Fips code
- 17-04078
- Website
- bataviail.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Batavia
- Population
- 26098
- Area
- 25.132841
- Elevation
- 203
- Official website
- www.cityofbatavia.net
- Image
- Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Depot (Batavia, IL) 04.JPG
- Households
- 9728
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- Commons category
- Batavia, Illinois
- postal code
- 60510
- inception
- 1833-00-00
- P8168
- Taylor Rain
- water as percent of area
- 0.6877
- per capita income
- 46134
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Batavia (/bəˈteɪviə/) is a city mainly in Kane County and partly in DuPage County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located in the Chicago metropolitan area, it was founded in 1833 and is the oldest city in Kane County. Per the 2020 census, the population was 26,098.
During the latter part of the 19th century, Batavia, home to six American-style windmill manufacturing companies, became known as "The Windmill City". Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a federal government-sponsored high-energy physics laboratory, where both the bottom quark and the top quark were first detected, is located just east of the city limits.