Mossville, Illinois is an unincorporated community between
PeoriaPeoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city was the fifth-largest in Illinois, with a population of 112,936; by 2007 it was the sixth-largest city and had population of 113,546...
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ChillicotheChillicothe is a city on the Illinois River in Peoria County, Illinois. The population was 5,996 at the 2000 census. Chillicothe is just north of the city of Peoria and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
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Peoria County, IllinoisPeoria County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2006, the population was 182,495. Its county seat is Peoria, Illinois.Peoria County is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:According to the U.S...
. Mossville is part of the
Peoria, IllinoisPeoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city was the fifth-largest in Illinois, with a population of 112,936; by 2007 it was the sixth-largest city and had population of 113,546...
Metropolitan Statistical AreaThe Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in Central Illinois, anchored by the city of Peoria...
and resides closely to the northern part of Peoria. Centered on the
Illinois RiverThe Illinois River is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The river drains a large section of central Illinois, with a drainage basin of . The river was important among Native Americans and early French traders as the principal water...
valley and the end of
Illinois Route 6Illinois Route 6 is a 4-lane freeway in central Illinois. It begins as a northern extension of Interstate 474 at Interstate 74 west of Peoria, and ends at Illinois Route 29 in Mossville, south of Chillicothe...
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Illinois Route 29Illinois Route 29 is a two to four lane state road that runs south from U.S. Route 6 at Spring Valley to U.S. Route 51 and Illinois Route 16 at Pana. Illinois 29 parallels the Illinois River on the western bank, running through Pekin, Peoria and Springfield. The nearest major north-south highway,...
, Mossville informally encompasses a number of different neighhorhoods along the valley: Renchville, Brookview, a cluster of houses along the Illinois River referred to as "The Lanes", and Cedar Hills Estates, as well as the unincorporated village of 900 that can be considered Mossville proper.
Mossville, Illinois is an unincorporated community between
PeoriaPeoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city was the fifth-largest in Illinois, with a population of 112,936; by 2007 it was the sixth-largest city and had population of 113,546...
and
ChillicotheChillicothe is a city on the Illinois River in Peoria County, Illinois. The population was 5,996 at the 2000 census. Chillicothe is just north of the city of Peoria and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...
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Peoria County, IllinoisPeoria County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of 2006, the population was 182,495. Its county seat is Peoria, Illinois.Peoria County is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:According to the U.S...
. Mossville is part of the
Peoria, IllinoisPeoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city was the fifth-largest in Illinois, with a population of 112,936; by 2007 it was the sixth-largest city and had population of 113,546...
Metropolitan Statistical AreaThe Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in Central Illinois, anchored by the city of Peoria...
and resides closely to the northern part of Peoria. Centered on the
Illinois RiverThe Illinois River is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The river drains a large section of central Illinois, with a drainage basin of . The river was important among Native Americans and early French traders as the principal water...
valley and the end of
Illinois Route 6Illinois Route 6 is a 4-lane freeway in central Illinois. It begins as a northern extension of Interstate 474 at Interstate 74 west of Peoria, and ends at Illinois Route 29 in Mossville, south of Chillicothe...
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Illinois Route 29Illinois Route 29 is a two to four lane state road that runs south from U.S. Route 6 at Spring Valley to U.S. Route 51 and Illinois Route 16 at Pana. Illinois 29 parallels the Illinois River on the western bank, running through Pekin, Peoria and Springfield. The nearest major north-south highway,...
, Mossville informally encompasses a number of different neighhorhoods along the valley: Renchville, Brookview, a cluster of houses along the Illinois River referred to as "The Lanes", and Cedar Hills Estates, as well as the unincorporated village of 900 that can be considered Mossville proper. The Lake of the Woods subdivision, as well as Colony Point, both on the west bluff of the Illinois River valley overlooking Mossville, can also be considered to be part of the greater Mossville area.
Businesses
Caterpillar Inc.Caterpillar Inc. is a United States-based corporation headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. Caterpillar is, according to their corporate website, "the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines."Famous for their...
located its Technical Research Center (Tech Center) in Mossville in the 1960s, and subsequently put production facilities there (the Mossville plant) as well. A co-operated
AmerenAmeren Corporation was created December 31, 1997 by the merger of Missouri's Union Electric Company and the neighboring Central Illinois Public Service Company . It is now a holding company for several power companies and energy companies. The company is based in St. Louis, Missouri...
/Caterpillar generation plant and a small industrial park also sits near the factories.
A
MarathonMarathon Petroleum Company is a fully owned, American subsidiary of the Marathon Oil Corporation. The subsidiary was formed on September 1, 2005, from the former Marathon Ashland Petroleum, LLC, and is based in Findlay, Ohio...
gas station (formerly Rich, and before that
SpeedwaySpeedway SuperAmerica LLC is a brand name of a chain of combination gas stations and convenience stores in the Midwest. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Marathon Petroleum Company...
) sits on Illinois Route 29. Nearby is a small ice cream business similar to the Ice Cream Shack on Adams Street in Peoria. There also used to be the Peoria Stained Glass Overlay, which went out of business and is currently for sale.
Homegrown Childcare, run by the local Skillestad family ((this is now Little Tykes Learning Adventures and is no longer owned by the Skillestads)), and Peoria Palace Skating Rink, are located on opposite sides of the far north end of State Street.
Taverns
Highlights of Mossville include the historic Southern Knights Bar, formerly known as Grant's Inn. The Grant's Inn building was standing before Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Peoria Speech at the Peoria County Courthouse in downtown Peoria.
An additional bar, named Trust Me, is on Illinois Route 29 itself.
Culture
Mossville School has approximately 800 students from kindergarten to eighth grade and is part of
Illinois Valley Central Unit District 321Illinois Valley Central Unit District 321 is the school district in the northeast corner of Peoria County, Illinois, including the communities of Chillicothe, Mossville, and Rome, Illinois.-Schools:...
.
The Mossville United Methodist Church is situated on the west side of the
Illinois Route 6Illinois Route 6 is a 4-lane freeway in central Illinois. It begins as a northern extension of Interstate 474 at Interstate 74 west of Peoria, and ends at Illinois Route 29 in Mossville, south of Chillicothe...
overpass on Mossville Road. Northminster Presbyterian Church is located at the far west end of Mossville Road.
The Mossville
ZIP CodeThe ZIP code is the system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service . The letters ZIP, a backronym for Zone Improvement Plan, are properly written in capital letters and were chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the...
is 61552. The small
post officeA post office is a facility authorised by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail. Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
, next to the Marathon gas station, does not have delivery routes. Locations within a few blocks of the post office have only
post office boxA post office box is a uniquely-addressable lockable box located on the premises of a post office station....
es; locations further out are served by rural delivery from the Chillicothe (61523) or
DunlapDunlap, located on Illinois 91, is a small village in Peoria County Illinois, United States. Its population was 926 people as of the 2000 census. Dunlap is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area and growth in the city of Peoria is extending towards the village...
(61525) post offices and have postal addresses that reflect this.
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