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.
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
Peoria Lock and Dam Historic Districtlisted 2004
Population over time
4 figuresCreve 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 350 | |
| 2000 | 5,448 | |
| 2010 | 5,451 | +3 (+0%) |
| 2020 | 4,934 | -517 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 21 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.
- 1905 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1927 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Peoria East quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1950 USGS Peoria East quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1996 USGS Peoria East quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
5,216 words on this townshipHistory 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 2009Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MURR |
| 23 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 9273 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Pit No 3 Peoria Brick & Tile | Clay | Producer | ||
| Peoria Blacktop S & G | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Plant | ||
| Peoria City Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Farmdale Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Jubilee Materials Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Moushon Construction Co. Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pekin Sand | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Peoria Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stevers Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | $75,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A few trees fell onto houses. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | $75,000 | Numerous 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | $42,000 | A one foot diameter tree fell onto a house in Creve Coeur. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | $15,000 | Several trees were blown down between East Peoria and Creve Coeur on Pekin Avenue. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | $4,000 | A tree was blown onto a fence. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | $50 | Large tree limbs were blown down at Creve Coeur. Wind gusted to 60 mph at Washington. |
| January 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | - | Power lines were blown across the road near the intersection of Springfield Road and Par 3 Lane. |
| January 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | - | A light pole was blown down. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve Coeur | - | A 20-foot long tree limb was blown down onto powerlines in the 2900 Block of Springfield Road. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Creve Coeur | - | Public report from mPING. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Creve 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Creve 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 2024 | Hail | Creve Coeur | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Creve Coeur | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Creve Coeur | - | no account filed |
| November 2016 | Hail | Creve Coeur | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesley | 0.8 miles | 21 | |
| East Peoria | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Fond du Lac | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Marquette Heights | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Grove | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Highway Village | 2.7 miles | 21 | |
| North Pekin | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Fondulac Plaza Shopping Center | 3.4 miles | 21 |
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 Coeur | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2289997 | 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 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.










