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O'Fallon, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in O'Fallon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62269. The Survey maps it on the O'Fallon quadrangle. 32,289 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

O'Fallon within St. Clair County

On record in O'Fallon

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

O'Fallon grew from 28,281 to 32,289 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
201028,281
202032,289+4,008 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

In the county-history sources

1,223 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 names this settlement in its chapter on O'Fallon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Lodges. - The Royal Templars of Temperance was organized in February 1880. The Independent Order of Good Templers in February, 1881. The O'Fallon Lodge, No. 576, A F. and A. M., was chartered Oct. 6, 1868. Treu Bund, W. O. T. B., was organized May 6, 1871. The German Lodge No. 463, L O. O. F., organized in 1872. The 0 Fallon Lodge No. 431, I. 0. O. F., was chartered in 1869. St. Clair Lodge, K. of P. No. 40, chartered in 1875. German Lodge, K. of H. No. 878, chartered February 4, 1878. They are all well attended, and have a good membership.

Passage source: History of St. Clair County, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1881.

There are also two more coal mines in this precinct, east of O'Fallon, the Van Court mine, and the Nicholas mine. The former was sunk in 1863 by Sharp and Thompson. It is now owned by B. J. Van Court, and operated by Savitz Brothers, of St. Louis. The mine is 207 feet deep, with a seven foot vein. The Nicholas mine was sunk about 1870, by Nicholas and McCoy. It is now owned and operated by Joseph Morris. The shaft is 212 feet deep, and the vein the same thickness of the above.

Passage source: History of St. Clair County, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on O'Fallon Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of O'Fallon: 1 past producer, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Hill Brick Co. Shale PitClayPast Producer
Little Canteen Shale ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names O'Fallon in 31 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindO Fallon2 hurt, $150,000Thunderstorm winds caused a home to collapse with two elderly residents inside.
March 2025Tornado (EF1)O Fallon$150,000At approximately 10:28 PM a tornado began in the northeastern outskirts of O'Fallon, IL where it caused damage to multiple mobile homes, single family homes, outbuildings, and trees along its track northeast. The tornado then passed into southern Madison County. In Madison County the tornado was rated EF-1 with a path length of 6.75 miles and a maximum path width of 770 yards. In St. Clair County the tornado was rated EF-1 with a path length of 5.9 miles and a maximum path width of 450 yards.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindO'Fallon$800Numerous power lines and large trees were knocked down across the county.
March 2025HailO Fallon-Wind driven hail caused extensive damage to west facing homes and buildings.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-Thunderstorm winds snapped a large tree which fell onto a house and its deck.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-Thunderstorm wind driven hail destroyed the siding and windows on numerous homes spanning entire neighborhoods in O'Fallon.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-Thunderstorm winds blew down a 6 inch diameter tree.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-Several trees and power lines were blown down. Also, one house sustained minor siding damage.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-Several large trees and tree limbs were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
March 2025HailO Fallon-no account filed
March 2025HailO Fallon-no account filed
August 2019HailO Fallon-no account filed
May 2018HailO Fallon-no account filed
May 2013HailO Fallon-no account filed
March 2012HailO Fallon-no account filed
May 2010HailO Fallon-no account filed
May 2010HailO Fallon-no account filed
June 2009HailO Fallon-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-no account filed
May 2004HailO Fallon-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-no account filed
February 1999HailO Fallon-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindO Fallon-no account filed
April 1996HailO Fallon-no account filed

Every storm 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
Petersburg0.5 miles17
Glenview1.4 miles17
Carbon1.5 miles17
Shiloh2.3 miles17
Crossroads2.9 miles17
Furman3.0 miles17
Capitol Oaks3.0 miles17
Pontiac3.9 miles17

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 O'FallonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577960The 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 426448. 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.