{"id":1306,"date":"2017-12-15T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2018-01-25T20:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T02:15:06","slug":"roxana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/roxana\/","title":{"rendered":"Roxana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1917, the Roxana Petroleum Company, later Shell Oil, built the Wood River Refinery south of the village of Wood River.((Wood River Refinery History Museum, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/archive\/items\/show\/531\">February 2017 Issue of &#8220;100 Years at the Wood River Refinery<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<em>Madison Historical<\/em>, accessed January 26, 2018.)) The community that formed around the refinery was incorporated as the village of Roxana on April 7, 1921.((Flagg, James S., editor,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/our150years1812100flag#page\/60\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Our 150 Years, 1812-1962<\/a><\/em>. (Edwardsville: East 10 Publishing, 1962.), 61.)). By 1930, the village of Roxana had a population of 1,139.((<a href=\"https:\/\/census.gov\/library\/publications\/1931\/dec\/1930a-vol-01-population.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930<\/em>, <em>Population Volume I<\/em><\/a> (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931), 303.)) As of the 2010 census, Roxana has a population of 1,542.((<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/cen2010\/cph-1-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Illinois: 2010, Summary Population and Housing Characteristics, 2010 Census of Population and Housing<\/a> <\/em>(Washington: Bureau of the Census, 2012), 146.))<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communities\/Roxana.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-473 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Roxana.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roxana in 2017<br \/>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.madison.il.us\/departments\/information_technology\/geographic_spatial_data.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maps &amp; Plats GIS Division of the Madison County Chief County Assessment Office<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>To access the\u00a0village of Roxana&#8217;s\u00a0website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roxana-il.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1917, the Roxana Petroleum Company, later Shell Oil, built the Wood River Refinery south of the village of Wood River.((Wood River Refinery History Museum, \u201cFebruary 2017 Issue of &#8220;100 Years at the Wood River Refinery,\u201d\u00a0Madison Historical, accessed January 26, 2018.)) The community that formed around the refinery was incorporated as the village of Roxana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"community.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madison-historical.siue.edu\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}