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Cahokia, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Centreville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62206. It stands on Dead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cahokia quadrangle. 12,096 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Cahokia within St. Clair County

On record in Cahokia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cahokia fell from 15,241 to 12,096 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201015,241
202012,096-3,145 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cahokia between 2006 and 2014, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 March 2014Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 October 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Cahokia: 34 past producers, 5 plants, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Sauget Zinc RefineryZinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Hypothetical Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, CadmiumProspectUnderground
Parker-Russell Fireclay MineFire Clay (Refractory), CoalPast Producer
Pfizer Inc. Mineral PigmentsIronProducer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No.6ClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Alpha PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Superior Dredge and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cahokia in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2002LightningCahokia$30,000A lighting strike started a fire which destroyed a double wide mobile home in Cahokia. The woman resident along with her 3 dogs and 2 cats escaped without injury.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindCahokia$500County officials reported trees and power lines down in Cahokia. A large warehouse roof was later damaged from high wind.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindCahokia-A 67 mph wind gust was recorded at St. Louis Downtown Airport. In Belleville, a small tree was uprooted and numerous tree limbs were blown down around town. Numerous tree limbs were blown down in Millstadt. In Freeburg, several power lines were blown down at the intersection of Illinois Route 15 and Jefferson Road. Also, several trees and numerous tree limbs were blown down around town.
May 2008HailCahokia-Local law enforcement reported hail up to golfball size.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCahokia-Multiple large tree limbs were reported down just south of Cahokia.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCahokia-Numerous trees and power lines were down across the east portion of town.
September 2003LightningCahokia-An early morning fire at a propane facility in Cahokia was caused by a lightning strike. The lighting hit a manifold where two 10 inch high pressure lines converge. Flames were reported shooting 100 feet into the air. Shut off valves on the lines were closed, but since one valve was 3 miles away, the fire continued until early afternoon as the residual fuel in the line burned off.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindCahokia-The County Sheriff reported trees down blocking a road in Cahokia.
April 2015HailCahokia-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindCahokia-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCahokia-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCahokia-no account filed
May 2003HailCahokia-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCahokia-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCahokia-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCahokia-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCahokia-no account filed
March 1997HailCahokia-no account filed
July 1996HailCahokia-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindCahokia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Maplewood Park0.8 miles27
North Dupo1.6 miles27
Sauget1.8 miles27
Stolle2.2 miles27
Falling Spring2.7 miles27
East Carondelet3.0 miles27
Tillman3.1 miles27
Centreville3.6 miles27

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CahokiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1025785The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 426287. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.