Fults, Illinois

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Fults is a village in the Renault precinct of Monroe County, Illinois, United States.

The population was 28 at the 2000 census. It is located entirely within the American Bottom floodplain.Fults is located at 38(deg)9'56″N 90(deg)12'52″W / 38.16556(deg)N 90.21444(deg)W / 38.16556; -90.21444 (38.165688, -90.214395).According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2), all of it land.It was named for Jacob Fults, born in Pennsylvania in 1793, to German immigrants.

Fults, after leaving the service of the United States during the War of 1812 in 1817, settled on Moredock Lake.

He then moved to the Renault precinct, first up Braun's Hollow, then in 1829 to the settlement known at the time as Braunsberg, which would eventually take his name, until his death in 1841.