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East Peoria, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Fondulac Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61611. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peoria East quadrangle. 22,484 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 489 feet above sea level.

East Peoria within Tazewell County

On record in East Peoria

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

3 figures

East Peoria fell from 22,638 to 22,484 between 2000 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
200022,638
201023,402+764 (+3%)
202022,484-918 (-4%)

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 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of East Peoria in 2009, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning3

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
20 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDUNDEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tazewell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of East Peoria: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
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 #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moushon Construction Co. Pit #2Sand 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

38 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Peoria in 38 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 16 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
May 2013FloodEast Peoria$21,700,000High impact flooding on the Illinois River continued from April.||Several homes, businesses and roads along the Illinois River in Tazewell County suffered flood damage due to record river levels. A total of 374 structures were damaged by the flooding in Tazewell County. High impact flooding subsided when the river level at Peoria fell below a stage of 22 feet on May 8th.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria$185,000Several trees were blown down on cars and houses in the 1100 block of Springfield Road in East Peoria. Wind damage occurred over a 2 block radius.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria$100,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria$10,000A car was flipped over on the U.S. Route 150 bridge due to high winds. Two minor injuries were reported. In addition, a wooden playest was destroyed and minor shingle damage occurred to several homes. Approximately 500 people in East Peoria lost power due to the storm.
August 2025LightningEast Peoria$8,000Lightning struck a transformer on East Washington Street.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria$2,000Three six to eight-inch diameter trees were snapped by strong winds.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria$500A large tree was blown down onto power lines at Creve Coeur. A tree 20 inches in diameter was blown down at East Peoria.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-Wooden utility poles were snapped.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-A large tree was blown down onto Fairview Avenue blocking the road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-The wind gust was estimated by an emergency manager at Fondulac Park.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-Small tree limbs blown down. Report from mPING.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-Large windows broken and metal roof damaged.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-A small tree was snapped.
May 2020Flash FloodEast Peoria-One foot of water was standing on Camp Street, with several cars stalling in the high water. Two feet of water was standing in front of UPS.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-Numerous tree branches were blown down near Veteran's Road and Bloomington Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-Numerous small trees were blown over.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-An 8-inch diameter tree limb was blown down on Fondulac Drive in East Peoria.
April 2013FloodEast Peoria-Several homes and businesses along the Illinois river in Tazewell suffered damage due to record river levels. The river stage at Peoria climbed to a record level of 29.35 feet on April 23rd at 19:30 local time, which was nearly 12 feet above flood stage. High impact flooding continued into the month of May 2013.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEast Peoria-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down countywide.
May 2004Tornado (F1)East Peoria-The tornado touched down about half a mile west of Fondulac dam. It traveled down Coventry Lane for about a quarter of a mile before lifting and dissipating. The damage was mainly to large trees, with a number of them falling on homes. Two homes had their roofs lifted off, with several others having minor roof damage. No injuries were reported.
May 2004Flash FloodEast Peoria-Very heavy rainfall caused street flooding in East Peoria. One motorist was stranded on Washington Street with water up to the door of their car.
June 1999HailEast Peoria-Dime size hail fell in East Peoria, Washington, and 4 miles east northeast of Delavan. Golfball sized hail was reported in Tremont.
August 1997HailEast Peoria-One inch hail fell in East Peoria, Morton, and Delavan as the severe thunderstorms moved southeast across the county.
April 2023HailEast Peoria-no account filed
August 2022HailEast Peoria-no account filed
August 2022HailEast Peoria-no account filed
March 2017HailEast Peoria-no account filed
April 2017HailEast Peoria-no account filed
April 2017HailEast Peoria-no account filed
March 2016HailEast Peoria-no account filed
March 2016HailEast Peoria-no account filed
June 2011HailEast Peoria-no account filed
June 2006HailEast Peoria-no account filed
June 2004HailEast Peoria-no account filed
April 2003HailEast Peoria-no account filed
April 2003HailEast Peoria-no account filed
April 2002HailEast Peoria-no account filed
June 1994Tornado (F0)East Peoria-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
Fond du Lac0.0 miles21
Creve Coeur1.4 miles21
Wesley1.6 miles21
Highway Village1.8 miles21
Fondulac Plaza Shopping Center2.3 miles21
Marquette Heights3.5 miles18
Farmdale3.7 miles21
Caldwell3.8 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 PeoriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q506116The 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 407684. 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.