| Pontiac is a
city in Livingston County, Illinois, United States.
The population was 11,864 at the 2000 census. It is
the county seat of Livingston County. The town is also
the setting of Grandview, U.S.A. As of June 2007, the
mayor of Pontiac is Scott H. McCoy[1].
Pontiac is located at 40°52′48″N
88°37′49″W / 40.88, -88.63028 (40.880003,
-88.630385). According to the United States Census Bureau,
the city has a total area of 5.2 square miles (13.6
km²), of which, 5.2 square miles (13.6 km²)
of it is land and 0.19% is water. Most of the land in
Pontiac is farm ground. On January 9 2008, Pontiac had
one of the worst floods in its history, rivalling or
surpassing in severity one from 1982. It was impossible
to make an exact measurement of the height the river
crested at because the water was so high that the automatic
reader could not read it correctly, and it was too dangerous
to measure it manually.
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