The town was evacuated in the Great Flood of 1993, which covered it with water more than 9 ft (3 m) deep. Its roads are maintained by Illinois Department of Transportation, and its few residents vote in Illinois elections. Kaskaskia has an Illinois telephone area code (618) and a Missouri ZIP Code (63673). In the 2020 United States Census the population was 21, making it the third-least populous incorporated community in Illinois behind Valley City (pop. A small bridge crosses the old riverbed, now a creek that is sometimes filled with water during flood season. Accordingly, if the Mississippi River is considered to be a break in physical continuity, Kaskaskia is an exclave of Illinois, lying west of the Mississippi and accessible only from Missouri. The state boundary line, however, remained in its original location. The river now passes east rather than west of the town. This resulted from deforestation of the river banks during the 19th century, due to crews taking wood for fuel to feed the steamboat and railroad traffic. Most of the town was destroyed in April 1881 by flooding, as the Mississippi River shifted eastward to a new channel, taking over the lower 10 mi (16 km) of the Kaskaskia River. state, the town briefly served as the state's first capital until 1819, when the capital was moved to more centrally located Vandalia. In 1818, when Illinois became the 21st U.S. Kaskaskia was later named as the capital of the United States' Illinois Territory, created on February 3, 1809. It was designated as the county seat of Illinois County, Virginia, after which it became part of the Northwest Territory in 1787. ![]() During the American Revolutionary War, the town, which by then had become an administrative center for the British Province of Quebec, was taken by the Virginia militia during the Illinois campaign. Its population peaked at about 7,000 in the 18th century, when it was a regional center. Having been inhabited by indigenous peoples, it was settled by France as part of the Illinois Country. Kaskaskia is a village in Randolph County, Illinois.
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