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.
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
Glen Carbon Grade Schoollisted 2014- Glen Carbon Village Hall and Firehouselisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresGlen 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12,934 | |
| 2020 | 13,842 | +908 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1907 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1937 USGS Collinsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Collinsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Collinsville quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madison County Fireclay | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Occurrence | ||
| Madison County Fireclay | Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium | Prospect | ||
| Madison County Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Barker Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| City Plant & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant |
Storms near this place
22 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Carbon | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs around town. |
| February 2011 | Tornado (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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen 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 2008 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | Storm spotters reported hail up to one inch on Collinsville Road. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | Storm spotters reported one inch hail. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Carbon | - | Several two foot diameter trees were blown down near the intersection of Interstate 270 and Illinois Route 157. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | Storm spotters reported golf ball size hail. |
| July 2000 | Lightning | Glen Carbon | - | A lightning strike at a substation knocked out power to about 2,300 customers in the Glen Carbon area. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glen Carbon | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Carbon Crossing | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Pleasant Ridge | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Maryville | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| Chinatown | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Lakeview Acres | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Troy Junction | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Mont Station | 3.1 miles | 17 | |
| Troy Crossing | 3.3 miles | 16 |
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 Carbon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1375820 | 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 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.






