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Cairo, IL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Cairo a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Cairo Home page. The Cairo Home page provides as much information as possible on Cairo. Knowing Cairo’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Cairo’s Home page, you will also find Cairo’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Cairo has a population of 1884. 46.5% of Cairo’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.5 are female. 30.3% of Cairo is married and 69.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $46,100, and the average rent is $652. Household median income in Cairo is $27,661, and the individual median income is $18,846. Cairo’s Ethnic is the following: Black(72%), White(26.3%), Multiple(1.7%), Hispanic(1.1%).
Cairo ( KAIR-oh) is the southernmost city in Illinois and the county seat of Alexander County. The city is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Fort Defiance, a Civil War camp, was built here in 1862 by Union General Ulysses S. Grant to control strategic access to the rivers, and launch and supply his successful campaigns south.
Cairo has the lowest elevation of any location in Illinois and is the only Illinois city to be surrounded by levees. It is in the area of Southern Illinois known as Little Egypt, for which the city is named after Egypt's capital. Several blocks in the town comprise the Cairo Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
The Old Customs House is also on the NRHP. The city is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO–IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Developed as a river port, Cairo was later bypassed by transportation changes away from the large expanse of low-lying land and water, which surrounds Cairo, and due to industrial restructuring, the population peaked at 15,203 in 1920, while in the 2020 census it was 1,733. The entire city was evacuated during the 2011 Mississippi River Floods, after the Ohio River rose higher than the 1937 flood levels, with the possibility of 15 feet of water inundating Cairo.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers breached levees in the Mississippi flood zone near Cairo in Missouri to prevent flooding in Cairo and other more populous areas further downstream along both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
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