Alorton
Alorton was a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Incorporated in 1944, it was one of three municipalities that merged to form the city of Cahokia Heights on May 6, 2021; the other two were the village of Cahokia and the city of Centreville.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,570 residents
- Description: village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Alorton, IL”, “Alorton, Illinois”, and “Fireworks”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Louis Downtown - Parks Airport.
Saint Louis Downtown - Parks Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Louis Downtown Airport is a public-use airport located in Greater St. Louis, one mile east of the central business district of Cahokia Heights, in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Saint Louis Downtown - Parks Airport is situated 2 miles southwest of Alorton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Centreville and Sauget.
Centreville
Village
Centreville was a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. The population was 5,309 in 2010, down from 5,951 at the 2000 census. Historically a predominantly Black and working-class community, Centreville has faced persistent environmental challenges stemming from economic disinvestment, redlining, and neglect by local and state governments.
Sauget
Village
Sauget is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is part of Greater St. Louis. The population was 141 at the 2020 census, down from 159 in 2010. Sauget is situated 2½ miles west of Alorton.
East St. Louis
Photo: davidwilson1949, CC BY 2.0.
East St. Louis, commonly abbreviated as "ESL", is a city in Southern Illinois directly across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. It is a sprawling city with about 18,000 people, down from about 82,000 in the 1950s.
Alorton
- Categories: village of Illinois and locality
- Location: Centreville Township, St. Clair, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.58979° or 38° 35′ 23″ northLongitude
-90.12005° or 90° 7′ 12″ westPopulation
1,570Elevation
417 feet (127 metres)United Nations Location Code
US ZONOpen location code
86CFHVQH+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 151839594OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Alorton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألورثون”
- Basque: “Alorton”
- Bulgarian: “Алортон”
- Catalan: “Alorton”
- Cebuano: “Alorton”
- Chinese: “Alorton”
- Chinese: “阿洛頓 (伊利諾伊州)”
- Chinese: “阿洛頓”
- Dutch: “Alorton”
- French: “Alorton”
- German: “Alorton”
- Haitian: “Alorton, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Alorton”
- Italian: “Alorton”
- Ladin: “Alorton”
- Mazanderani: “الورتن (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “الورتن”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alorton”
- Newari: “एलोरटन, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “एलोरटन”
- Polish: “Alorton”
- Portuguese: “Alorton”
- Serbian: “Алортон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alorton, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alorton”
- Spanish: “Alorton”
- Ukrainian: “Алортон”
- Urdu: “الورٹن، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “الورٹن”
- Vietnamese: “Alorton, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Alorton”
- Volapük: “Alorton”
- Welsh: “Alorton, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Alorton”
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