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Creve Coeur, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Groveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61610. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peoria East quadrangle. 4,934 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Creve Coeur within Tazewell County

On record in Creve Coeur

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 1 record

Population over time

4 figures

Creve Coeur grew from 350 to 4,934 between 1930 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
1930350
20005,448
20105,451+3 (+0%)
20204,934-517 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

In the county-history sources

5,216 words on this township

History of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Groveland Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Groveland Township - 5,216 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Creve Coeur in 2009, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning2

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
3 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMURR
23 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9273

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tazewell County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Creve Coeur: 4 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clay Pit No 3 Peoria Brick & TileClayProducer
Peoria Blacktop S & GFire Clay (Refractory)Plant
Peoria City PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Farmdale Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jubilee Materials Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moushon Construction Co. Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pekin SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peoria PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Stevers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tazewell County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creve Coeur in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur$75,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A few trees fell onto houses.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur$75,000Numerous trees, large tree limbs and power lines were blown down. In addition, an A frame house was destroyed when 2 large trees fell on it.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur$42,000A one foot diameter tree fell onto a house in Creve Coeur.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur$15,000Several trees were blown down between East Peoria and Creve Coeur on Pekin Avenue.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur$5,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur$4,000A tree was blown onto a fence.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur$50Large tree limbs were blown down at Creve Coeur. Wind gusted to 60 mph at Washington.
January 2026Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur-Power lines were blown across the road near the intersection of Springfield Road and Par 3 Lane.
January 2026Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur-A light pole was blown down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur-A 20-foot long tree limb was blown down onto powerlines in the 2900 Block of Springfield Road.
August 2022HailCreve Coeur-Public report from mPING.
May 2010Flash FloodCreve Coeur-Slow moving, single cell thunderstorms produced nearly 3.50 inches of rain in two hours across western Tazewell County. Many area roads were closed and vehicles stranded due to flowing water of 6 to 12 inches deep. The hardest hit area was along Springfield Road from the intersection of Muller Road to near Delavan. Most streets in the village of Tremont were also flooded.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur-Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. Several of the fallen trees caused minor damage to the roofs on a couple of houses and several cars sustained damage from the trees. No injuries were reported.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindCreve Coeur-A large tree was blown down onto power lines at Creve Coeur. A tree 20 inches in diameter was blown down at East Peoria.
February 2024HailCreve Coeur-no account filed
July 2020HailCreve Coeur-no account filed
July 2020HailCreve Coeur-no account filed
November 2016HailCreve Coeur-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tazewell 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
Wesley0.8 miles21
East Peoria1.4 miles21
Fond du Lac1.4 miles21
Marquette Heights2.1 miles18
Grove2.7 miles18
Highway Village2.7 miles21
North Pekin2.8 miles18
Fondulac Plaza Shopping Center3.4 miles21

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 Creve CoeurAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2289997The 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 406783. 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.