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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.

East Saint Louis within St. Clair County

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

Population over time

2 figures

East 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.

YearPeople Change
201027,006
202018,469-8,537 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

9,003 words on this township

History 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 2008

Regional 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
13 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources81ST
24 March 2014Smoking1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCBHALWACHS
21 March 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBHALWACHS
19 March 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHALWACHS
13 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGREEN
26 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDELMAR
26 February 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBURNETT
26 February 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBURNETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Cerro Copper Sauget SmelterCopperPlant
(Facility) Sauget Zinc RefineryZinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric AcidPlant
Hypothetical Lead MineLead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, CadmiumProspectUnderground
Madison PlantThoriumProducer
Pfizer Inc. Mineral PigmentsIronProducer
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co Quarry 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bambrick-Bates Constr. Co. Quarry 3Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bowdirns QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Carl's QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Carlins QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
National City (historical)1.6 miles28
Brooklyn2.5 miles28
Rose Lake2.5 miles21
Sauget2.6 miles27
Rosemont2.8 miles21
Alorton2.9 miles21
Centreville3.2 miles27
Washington Park3.2 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 Saint LouisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577891The 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.