Mount Carmel, Illinois City of Mount Carmel Wabash County Courthouse in Mount Wabash County Courthouse, downtown State Illinois County Wabash Precinct Mount Carmel Location of Mount Carmel inside Illinois Mount Carmel is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Wabash County, Illinois, United States. At the time of the 2010 census, the populace was 7,284, while the next biggest town in Wabash County is Allendale, populace 475.

Located at the confluence of the Wabash, Patoka, and White Rivers, Mount Carmel borders both Gibson and Knox counties of Indiana.

A small improve known informally as East Mount Carmel sits near the mouth of the Patoka River on the opposite (Gibson County) side of the Wabash River from Mount Carmel.

Mount Carmel is 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of the Forest of the Wabash, a National Natural Landmark inside Beall Woods State Park and about a mile north-northeast of one of its chief employers, the Gibson Generating Station.

Mount Carmel is also the home of Wabash Valley College, part of the Community College System of Eastern Illinois.

The Gibson County, Indiana power plant is positioned less than a mile away from Mount Carmel, directly athwart the river.

Other employers include Champion Laboratories plant in Albion, Illinois that produces air and fuel filters and a ATS plant in Lawrenceville, which also supplies TMMI.

Local employers include a several petroleum and gas firms, exploiting the Southern Indiana Oil Basin, which extends into Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky.

On April 5, 2007, Foundation Coal Holdings, Inc., of Linthicum Heights, Maryland, announced plans to close the Wabash Mine in close-by Keensburg, Illinois, meaning a loss of nearly 230 jobs in Wabash County. Mount Carmel lost 270 jobs in 2003 due to the method of a Snap-on Tools factory, which had directed since 1937.

Mount Carmel is home to Wabash Valley College, part of the Illinois Eastern Community Colleges (IECC).

As part of the IECC, inhabitants benefit from a reciprocal agreement where some of the out-of-state fees to attend the University of Southern Indiana are waived, in exchange for similar tuition discounts for Indiana students in IECC schools.

Mount Carmel's K-12 school precinct is Wabash Community Schools District 348.

It has two elementary schools, divided by undertaking (South and North Schools), a new middle school Mount Carmel Middle School, assembled in 2000, and Mount Carmel High School, the only high school in the county.

On June 4, 1877 a tornado of F4 intensity touched down just west of Mount Carmel and moved east-northeast, devastating the town.

In the 1920s, there was a hotel and in Wabash County near the Grand Rapids Dam and Hanging Rock on the Wabash River.

The hotel was called the Grand Rapids Hotel and was owned by Frederick Hinde Zimmerman.

During the hotel's nine-year existence it catered to individuals from all over the United States.

Bridge over the Wabash River formerly featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Mount Carmel is positioned at 38 24 53 N 87 46 7 W (38.414859, -87.768596) on the Wabash River, which demarcates the Indiana border.

According to the 2010 census, the town/city has a total region of 5.00 square miles (12.9 km2), of which 4.86 square miles (12.6 km2) (or 97.20%) is territory and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km2) (or 2.80%) is water. for its once multicolored bridge over the Wabash River, painted white and black on the Illinois and Indiana sides of the state line, in the order given.

The old twelve span Parker truss bridge, later repainted entirely green, formerly connected Princeton, Indiana to Mount Carmel via Indiana State Road 64 and Illinois Route 15. Illinois Route 1 and Illinois Route 15 meet just a several blocks from the bridge.

One rail bridge runs alongside to the IN-64/IL-15 bridge, and another sits just a several miles south, near the southern most edge of the city.

The new bridge is a milestone as Indiana continues its quest to grew Indiana 64 to a four-lane highway as part of their Major Moves Project. As of February 20, 2011 the new concrete and steel beam bridge is fully carrying traffic.

Mount Carmel is inside the Wabash Valley seismic zone.

Near 7th street is home to some of the earliest homes in Mount Carmel, and still retains its brick surface and sidewalk.

In the town/city the populace was spread out with 23.6% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 19.2% who were 65 years of age or older.

Constable, judge; Illinois state senator; friend of Abraham Lincoln; lived in Mount Carmel Archie Dees, forward and center with five National Basketball Association teams; attendant Mount Carmel High School Glenn Goodart, manager of the Grand Rapids Hotel, finance commissioner, and county treasurer Harry Hinde, businessman, inventor, and Missouri state representative; born in Mount Carmel Hinde, real estate tycoon, Methodist minister, and founder of Mount Carmel Attractions in Gibson County "Mt Carmel, IL Tornado, Jun 1887".

Wabash County Museum Crossing the Wabash "The Associated Press: 5.4 earthquake rocks Illinois; also felt in Indiana".

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

Wabash County Chamber of Commerce Mount Carmel Register Municipalities and communities of Wabash County, Illinois, United States

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Mount Carmel, Illinois - 1815 establishments in Illinois Territory - Populated places established in 1815