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Stolle, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Centreville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62239. The Survey maps it on the Cahokia quadrangle.

Stolle within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Stolle between 2009 and 2014, burning about 1 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
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
22 March 2014Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
21 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources255 FOREST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Stolle: 23 past producers, 4 plants, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Alpha PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Superior Dredge and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Allen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Casper Stolle Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Columbia Quarry & Mill #9Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
East St. Louis QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Eyerman Brothers Quarry Number OneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Friedrick QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stolle in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 WindStolle1 hurtThunderstorm winds felled a tree in Cahokia Heights. This tree fell on a house on Melvin Drive, injuring a 9 year old girl.
May 2024HailStolle-Hailstones between 1 and 1.75 inches in diameter fell in Cahokia Heights, Fairview Heights, Swansea, and Belleville. The largest stones fell in Belleville.
October 2017Thunderstorm WindStolle-Thunderstorm winds blew over a couple of electronic message boards on I-255 near Cahokia.

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
Tillman1.0 miles27
Falling Spring1.2 miles27
North Dupo1.7 miles27
Cahokia2.2 miles27
Maplewood Park2.2 miles27
Imbs2.3 miles27
Dupo2.9 miles27
East Carondelet3.3 miles27

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.

Wikidata item Q122554880The 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 426542. 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.