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Edwardsville, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Edwardsville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62025. It stands on Little Mooney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edwardsville quadrangle. 27,000 people lived here at the 2024 count. It stands 568 feet above sea level.

Edwardsville within Madison County

On record in Edwardsville

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Edwardsville grew from 24,293 to 27,000 between 2010 and 2024. 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
201024,293
202427,000+2,707 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Edwardsville in 2001, burning under an 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/undetermined1

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
5 December 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Edwardsville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Madison County PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

51 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edwardsville in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 25 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
February 1999HailEdwardsville$200,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$100,000A late night thunderstorm produced wind gusts around 70 mph causing widespread wind damage in Edwardsville. Most of the damage was due to downed trees and power lines. The storm carved a west path from North Main Street south to Goshen Road. Quite a few roofs and vehicles were damaged by downed trees and limbs.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$15,000no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$10,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$5,000Several power poles were reported down north northeast of town.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed large tree limbs which took down power lines. One line fell onto the roof of a house causing a brief fire.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville$200Ham radio spotters reported several large trees and limbs down along Highway 159.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees, tree limbs and power lines in Edwardsville and Glen Carbon.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
April 2008HailEdwardsville-Nickel to quarter size hail cover the ground in the Edwardsville area.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-A line of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across eastern parts of the St. Louis Metro area. Around 930 pm...one of these storms produced a downburst with wind speeds estimated between 75 and 80 mph along Buena Vista Street in the Grandview Subdivision in Edwardsville. These damaging winds caused large 4 to 5 foot diameter trees to be uprooted, as well as numerous smaller trees. Several large trees were blown down on a couple of homes, causing extensive damage. No injuries were reported.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Minor roof damage occurred to a building on the campus of SIUE. Also, several large trees were uprooted.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2006Tornado (F0)Edwardsville-A tornado briefly touched down in a open field south of Edwardsville near Illinois Route 159. No damage or injuries were reported.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees and power lines. Power was not restored in some areas until about 10 am the next morning.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Edwardsville-Local law enforcement reported a brief tornado in an open field east of Edwardsville.
December 2002HailEdwardsville-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail at the intersection of I-270 and Highway 111.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees on the north side of Edwardsville. Several roads were blocked by the downed trees.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged the gutters on a house in Edwardsville. Some trees and power lines were also down in the area.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-Local law enforcement reported trees down on the north and east sides of the city.
August 2000HailEdwardsville-Amateur radio spotters reported 1 inch hail southwest of Edwardsville.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
April 2012HailEdwardsville-no account filed
March 2012HailEdwardsville-no account filed
June 2011HailEdwardsville-no account filed
June 2009HailEdwardsville-no account filed
May 2008HailEdwardsville-no account filed
September 2008HailEdwardsville-no account filed
April 2007HailEdwardsville-no account filed
May 2007HailEdwardsville-no account filed
May 2006HailEdwardsville-no account filed
June 2006HailEdwardsville-no account filed
June 2006HailEdwardsville-no account filed
May 2003HailEdwardsville-no account filed
May 2003Funnel CloudEdwardsville-no account filed
August 2003HailEdwardsville-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
April 2001HailEdwardsville-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
July 2000HailEdwardsville-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
June 1998HailEdwardsville-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEdwardsville-no account filed
June 1998HailEdwardsville-no account filed
June 1998HailEdwardsville-no account filed
May 1996HailEdwardsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Leclaire1.1 miles17
Bluff Junction1.6 miles17
Graney2.6 miles17
Mont Station3.3 miles17
Gard3.5 miles17
Glen Carbon Crossing4.1 miles17
Kuhn Station4.5 miles17
Glen Carbon4.6 miles16

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 EdwardsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577939The 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 407807. 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.