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East Moline, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in South Moline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61244. The Survey maps it on the Silvis quadrangle. 21,374 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

East Moline within Rock Island County

Population over time

2 figures

East Moline grew from 21,302 to 21,374 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
201021,302
202021,374+72 (+0%)

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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of East Moline between 2006 and 2008, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPOLE
22 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rock Island County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of East Moline: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bettendorf Stone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rock Island County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Moline in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
March 1998Thunderstorm WindEast Moline$3,000Police car and another vehicle were damaged when a large sign was blown onto the vehicles.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEast Moline$2,000trees down
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Moline-A public report of a 2 inch tree limb knocked down by thunderstorm wind. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
July 2024Tornado (EF1)East Moline-Nearly continuous damage was surveyed consistent with a tornado producing 85-100 mph winds. In Davenport, Iowa, damage occurred to dozens of large trees, including several large healthy snapped trees. Some trees fell on homes and at least one on a car. A large section of an apartment roof was also torn off. Damage in Scott County Iowa was rated EF1 with maximum winds around 100 mph. The tornado crossed the Mississippi River and moved into Rock Island County Illinois along River Drive in East Moline, around 18:28 CST. The tornado snapped some tree trunks before dissipating around 18:32 CST. The tornado was also rated EF-1 in Rock Island County, with maximum winds around 90 mph.
March 2019FloodEast Moline-Heavy rain and snow melting across the region caused the Mississippi River to rise above its major flood stage on March 23rd and remain above the major flood stage through the end of the month. An initial crest of 18.50 feet occurred late in the day on the 24th.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Moline-A public report via social media of a large tree branches down. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
May 2019FloodEast Moline-The Mississippi River at Rock Island Lock and Dam 15 began the month above its major flood stage of 18 feet. The river stage at the beginning of the month was 21.10 feet. The river would rise to a crest of 22.70 feet at 450 PM CST on May 3rd. This crest is a new all time highest crest for the Mississippi River at Rock Island. This broke the old record of 22.63 feet that had previously occurred on July 9, 1993. The river fell below major flood stage around noon on May 12th.
June 1998HailEast Moline-Severe thunderstorms resulted in numerous reports of hail across Nothern Rock Island County. Hail sizes ranged from three quarters of an inch in Silvis to one and three fourth inches in East Moline.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindEast Moline-Numerous reports of large tree limb damage.
April 1998HailEast Moline-no account filed
May 1997HailEast Moline-no account filed
May 1997HailEast Moline-no account filed
May 1997HailEast Moline-no account filed
May 1995HailEast Moline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rock Island 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
Silvis1.7 miles21
Glendale (historical)1.8 miles14
Carbon Cliff2.9 miles14
Poplar Grove3.0 miles14
Babcock3.2 miles21
Bridgeway Addition3.7 miles23
Moline3.8 miles20
Hampton4.2 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 East MolineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q578055The 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 407677. 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.