Pagedale, Missouri
| Pagedale, Missouri | |
|---|---|
| City | |
 Location within St. Louis County and Missouri |
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| Coordinates: 38°40′42″N 90°18′40″W / 38.67833°N 90.31111°WCoordinates: 38°40′42″N 90°18′40″W / 38.67833°N 90.31111°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | St. Louis |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.19 sq mi (3.08 km2) |
| • Land | 1.19 sq mi (3.08 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Elevation | 571 ft (174 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,310 |
| • Estimate (2014) | 3,310 |
| • Density | 2,800/sq mi (1,100/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code | 314 |
| FIPS code | 29-55964 |
| GNIS feature ID | 756495 |
Pagedale is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3,310 at the 2010 census.
The area originally was farmland, but it did have an interesting history with several pockets of significant Greek and African-American residents. Because St. Vincent's mental hospital was located just north of St. Charles Rock Road, a streetcar line was constructed in the late 1800s from just south of Olive Street Road in University City north on the east side of Ferguson Avenue through what is now Pagedale to meet the electric interurban line to Saint Charles at the Rock Road. The south end of the line eventually joined with the Creve Coeur Lake streetcar line which ran on Vernon Avenue (but later was relocated a block further south to run behind a new subdivision). That transportation opened up the area to housing.
South of Pagedale, at Page and Ferguson, was Hazel Hill, which eventually became the reason for the Lincoln School which became part of the Normandy School District. Though long forgotten as a name, the Hazel Hill community still exists and the Lincoln building is still standing. When Pagedale was incorporated, the northern end went beyond the Rock Road up Hoke Avenue, which later was renamed Ferguson though it didn't line up with Ferguson. In 1954 a new housing subdivision was built at Ferguson and North Market Street. That subdivision, named Engelholm Gardens, a long forgotten name also, still stands, looking exactly as it did in 1954.
In November 2015, some residents filed a civil rights class action lawsuit against the city of Pagedale for overly aggressive ticketing of residential code enforcement as a "revenue generating machine".
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.19 square miles (3.08 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2010, there were 3,304 people, 1,179 households, and 829 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,776.5 inhabitants per square mile (1,072.0/km2). There were 1,461 housing units at an average density of 1,227.7 per square mile (474.0/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 3.4% White, 93.4% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of the population.
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