East Saint Louis, Illinois
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in East St. Louis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62201. The Survey maps it on the Cahokia quadrangle. 18,469 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in East Saint Louis
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
United States Post Office and Courthouselisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresEast Saint Louis fell from 27,006 to 18,469 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 | 27,006 | |
| 2020 | 18,469 | -8,537 (-32%) |
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
In the county-history sources
9,003 words on this townshipHistory of St. Clair County, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1881; Centennial, McKendree College, with St. Clair County History, published 1928 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on East St. Louis Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on East St. Louis Township - 9,003 words.
Fires near this place
15 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of East Saint Louis between 2008 and 2014, burning about 7 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 81ST |
| 24 March 2014 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | CBHALWACHS |
| 21 March 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BHALWACHS |
| 19 March 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HALWACHS |
| 13 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | GREEN |
| 26 February 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DELMAR |
| 26 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BURNETT |
| 26 February 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BURNETT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 35 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of East Saint Louis: 30 past producers, 2 plants, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. 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) Cerro Copper Sauget Smelter | Copper | Plant | ||
| (Facility) Sauget Zinc Refinery | Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid | Plant | ||
| Hypothetical Lead Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium | Prospect | Underground | |
| Madison Plant | Thorium | Producer | ||
| Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments | Iron | Producer | ||
| Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co Quarry 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 3 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bowdirns Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Carl's Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Carlins Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| National City (historical) | 1.6 miles | 28 | |
| Brooklyn | 2.5 miles | 28 | |
| Rose Lake | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Sauget | 2.6 miles | 27 | |
| Rosemont | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| Alorton | 2.9 miles | 21 | |
| Centreville | 3.2 miles | 27 | |
| Washington Park | 3.2 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 East Saint Louis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q577891 | 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 426327. 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.













