BlockRoxana, Illinois
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Wood River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62084. The Survey maps it on the Wood River quadrangle. 1,454 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 446 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRoxana fell from 1,542 to 1,454 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 | 1,542 | |
| 2020 | 1,454 | -88 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 24 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.
- 1927 USGS Alton quadrangle1:62500
- 1934 USGS Alton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Wood River quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Wood River quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Alton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Wood River quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1994 USGS Wood River quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
6,541 words on this townshipCentennial History of Madison County, Illinois, and Its People, 1812 to 1912, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Wood River Township covers first settlers, wood river massacre monument, first schools, upper alton, literary, religious and educational, industries and business.
Read the chapter on Wood River Township - 6,541 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Roxana: 1 plant, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Stone, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Shell Oil Wood River Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| Alton Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wood City Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roxana in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Roxana | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and large tree limbs between Wood River and South Roxana. Also, in Wood River, some shingles were blown off of a house. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxana | - | Numerous large tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxana | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Roxana | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Roxana | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxana | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roxana | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivy Heights | 1.4 miles | 24 | |
| Wood River | 1.4 miles | 24 | |
| Hartford | 1.5 miles | 24 | |
| South Roxana | 1.5 miles | 24 | |
| Kendall Hill | 1.7 miles | 24 | |
| Wanda | 2.2 miles | 24 | |
| Oakwood Heights | 2.3 miles | 23 | |
| Rosedale | 2.4 miles | 23 |
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 Roxana | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2670479 | 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 417013. 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.