Old Cahokia Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Cahokia Courthouse State Historic Site is a reconstructed French-Canadian structure built about 1740 at what is now 107 Elm Street, Cahokia Heights, Illinois. At various times it has served as a house and as a courthouse.”
Wikipedia article Old Cahokia Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for St. Clair County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Corner of W. 1st and Elm Sts., Cahokia, 62206
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. building
Township. Centreville township
National Register reference number. 72001480 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Old Cahokia Courthouse between 2006 and 2014, burning about 2 acres 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 minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
22 March 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
9 October 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Old Cahokia Courthouse: 35 past producers, 5 plants, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
(Facility) Sauget Zinc Refinery	Zinc, Refiner, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid	Plant
Hypothetical Lead Mine	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Cadmium	Prospect	Underground
Pfizer Inc. Mineral Pigments	Iron	Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Co Mine No.6	Clay	Past Producer
Parker-Russell Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer
Tole and Thorp Fireclay Mine	Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal	Past Producer
Unknown - Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Alpha Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Superior Dredge and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Unknown - S&G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this property

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cahokia, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 13 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 lightning. 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
July 2002	Lightning	Cahokia	$30,000	A lighting strike started a fire which destroyed a double wide mobile home in Cahokia. The woman resident along with her 3 dogs and 2 cats escaped without injury.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	$500	County officials reported trees and power lines down in Cahokia. A large warehouse roof was later damaged from high wind.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	A 67 mph wind gust was recorded at St. Louis Downtown Airport. In Belleville, a small tree was uprooted and numerous tree limbs were blown down around town. Numerous tree limbs were blown down in Millstadt. In Freeburg, several power lines were blown down at the intersection of Illinois Route 15 and Jefferson Road. Also, several trees and numerous tree limbs were blown down around town.
May 2008	Hail	Cahokia	-	Local law enforcement reported hail up to golfball size.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	Multiple large tree limbs were reported down just south of Cahokia.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	Numerous trees and power lines were down across the east portion of town.
September 2003	Lightning	Cahokia	-	An early morning fire at a propane facility in Cahokia was caused by a lightning strike. The lighting hit a manifold where two 10 inch high pressure lines converge. Flames were reported shooting 100 feet into the air. Shut off valves on the lines were closed, but since one valve was 3 miles away, the fire continued until early afternoon as the residual fuel in the line burned off.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	The County Sheriff reported trees down blocking a road in Cahokia.
April 2015	Hail	Cahokia	-	no account filed
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	no account filed
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Cahokia	-	no account filed
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	no account filed
March 1997	Hail	Cahokia	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Cahokia	-	no account filed
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cahokia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Church of the Holy Family	0.2 miles	1970
Nicholas Jarrot Mansion	0.2 miles	1974
Curtiss-Wright Hangars 1 and 2	1.5 miles	2007
Pierre Martin House	1.6 miles	1990
United States Post Office and Courthouse	4.2 miles	2014
Downtown East St. Louis Historic District	4.2 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001480 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Clair County	All 27 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.