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Wood River is located in western Madison County on the Mississippi River approximately 15 miles (24 km) upstream of downtown St. Louis, Missouri.It is among several contiguous cities and villages that have come to be known as the "Riverbend" area.
Wood River (historically, Rivière du Bois) is a 2.4-mile-long (3.9 km) [1] tributary of the Mississippi River, which it joins near East Alton, and Wood River, Illinois, to the northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. The Wood River is formed by the confluence of its West and East forks.
The Wood River Refinery is an oil refinery located in Roxana, Illinois, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri, on the east side of the Mississippi River. The refinery is currently owned by Phillips 66 and Cenovus Energy and operated by the joint-venture company WRB Refining, LLC (WRB).
In 1803, at Cahokia, Lewis and Clark had met a well known French citizen, Nicholas Jarrot, who owned 400 acres on the river du Bois, and he agreed to let them establish their camp there. [2] William Clark established Camp Dubois, with a group of men that he recruited from Kaskaskia and Fort Massac , constructing a frontier fort.
Wildwood is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. It is located in the far western portion of the county. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,417. [4] Wildwood is the home of the Al Foster Trail, [5] and numerous other trails, parks, and reserves such as Rockwoods Reservation and Babler State Park.
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Alton (/ ˈ ɔː l t ən / AWL-tən) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about 18 miles (29 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri.The population was 25,676 at the 2020 census.