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.
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
Church of the Holy FamilyNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
Nicholas Jarrot MansionNational Historic Landmark · listed 1974
Curtiss-Wright Hangars 1 and 2listed 2007
Old Cahokia Courthouselisted 1972
Population over time
2 figuresCahokia 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15,241 | |
| 2020 | 12,096 | -3,145 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:62500
- 1933 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000
- 1934 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1940 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Cahokia quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2006Regional 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 minor | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 March 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 October 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 43 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Sauget Zinc Refinery | Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid | Plant | ||
| Hypothetical Lead Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium | Prospect | Underground | |
| Parker-Russell Fireclay Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal | Past Producer | ||
| Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments | Iron | Producer | ||
| Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No.6 | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Alpha Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Superior Dredge and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Unknown - S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Lightning | Cahokia | $30,000 | A 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | $500 | County officials reported trees and power lines down in Cahokia. A large warehouse roof was later damaged from high wind. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Cahokia | - | Local law enforcement reported hail up to golfball size. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | Multiple large tree limbs were reported down just south of Cahokia. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | Numerous trees and power lines were down across the east portion of town. |
| September 2003 | Lightning | Cahokia | - | 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | The County Sheriff reported trees down blocking a road in Cahokia. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cahokia | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maplewood Park | 0.8 miles | 27 | |
| North Dupo | 1.6 miles | 27 | |
| Sauget | 1.8 miles | 27 | |
| Stolle | 2.2 miles | 27 | |
| Falling Spring | 2.7 miles | 27 | |
| East Carondelet | 3.0 miles | 27 | |
| Tillman | 3.1 miles | 27 | |
| Centreville | 3.6 miles | 27 |
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 Cahokia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1025785 | The 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.













