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Glen Carbon, Illinois

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Edwardsville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62034. The Survey maps it on the Collinsville quadrangle. 13,842 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Glen Carbon within Madison County

On record in Glen Carbon

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Glen Carbon grew from 12,934 to 13,842 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
201012,934
202013,842+908 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glen Carbon: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, 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 FireclayFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
Madison County FireclayAluminum, Iron, Silica, TitaniumProspect
Madison County PitStonePast Producer
Barker DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
City Plant & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Carbon in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 15 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGlen Carbon$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs around town.
February 2011Tornado (EF1)Glen Carbon-The tornado touched down between Edwardsville and Glen Carbon near the intersection of Ginger Creek Drive and Illinois Route 157. There were several cedar trees uprooted at this location. The tornado continued east-northeast through the Ginger Creek Subdivision to the intersection of Center Grove Road and Illinois Route 159. This is where a metal industrial building sustained roof and siding damage. The tornado also crossed the intersection of Center Grove Road and Troy Road where a few signs of local businesses were damaged and a Home Depot sustained some damage to small preconstructed sheds sitting outside. The tornado continued east-northeast to near the intersection of Gerber Road and Governors Parkway where several houses sustained minor roof and siding damage. The tornado dissipated just beyond this location. The path length of this tornado was 2.4 miles long. Most of the damage along the path was rated EF0 with the maximum intensity rated EF1 for some tree damage and the industrial building damage. The maximum path width was 150 yards.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGlen Carbon-Thunderstorm winds blew down a twelve inch diameter tree on Clay Street in Troy. Also, numerous large tree limbs were blown down in Glen Carbon and Edwardsville.
May 2008HailGlen Carbon-Storm spotters reported hail up to one inch on Collinsville Road.
May 2008HailGlen Carbon-Storm spotters reported one inch hail.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGlen Carbon-Several two foot diameter trees were blown down near the intersection of Interstate 270 and Illinois Route 157.
April 2001HailGlen Carbon-Storm spotters reported golf ball size hail.
July 2000LightningGlen Carbon-A lightning strike at a substation knocked out power to about 2,300 customers in the Glen Carbon area.
May 2025HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
June 2023HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
March 2017HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
April 2011HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
April 2011HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
April 2011HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
June 2010HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
June 2009HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
April 2007HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
April 2006HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
July 2006HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
September 2003Thunderstorm WindGlen Carbon-no account filed
August 2003HailGlen Carbon-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGlen Carbon-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
Glen Carbon Crossing1.5 miles17
Pleasant Ridge1.8 miles16
Maryville2.2 miles16
Chinatown2.4 miles16
Lakeview Acres2.9 miles16
Troy Junction3.1 miles16
Mont Station3.1 miles17
Troy Crossing3.3 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 Glen CarbonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1375820The 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 409053. 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.

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.