Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Lake Ka-Ho, IL

Lake Ka-Ho is a village in Cahokia Township, in southeastern Macoupin County, and it was only incorporated in 2000, making it one of the newest villages in Illinois.

The village wraps around Lake Ka-Ho, a reservoir built on a tributary of Panther Creek, just south of the Mount Olive Lake reservoir on Panther Creek itself.

Both reservoirs sit in the watershed of Cahokia Creek, which flows west-southwest to the Mississippi River near St. Louis.

Water makes up about 12 percent of the village, which covers just 0.32 square miles in total, with 0.28 square miles of land.

The 2020 census counted 194 people in Lake Ka-Ho, down from 237 residents in 2010, the first census taken after its incorporation.

Lake Ka-Ho's 194 residents lived in 123 households and 53 families in 2020, spread among 129 housing units, and the median age was a relatively old 49.5 years.

The village is part of the St. Louis metropolitan statistical area, lying 2 miles northwest of Mount Olive and 6 miles southeast of Gillespie, with Interstate 55 passing just southeast of the village limits.