Kell, IL

Kell is a village in Marion County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 173 residents. Kell is a tributary of the Big Muddy River, which runs south to the Mississippi River north of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The northwest part of the village drains to Raccoon Creek, a west-flowing tributary of Crooked Creek and part of the Kaskaskia River watershed flowing to the Mississippi near Ste. Kell's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Illinois setting. The local scoop is how Kell's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Kell includes the divide between the Ohio River.