Creve Coeur

Welcome to Creve Coeur

The City of Creve Coeur is located within the heart of the St. Louis metropolitan region. The established and affluent community of 17,800 people offers housing quality and variety, beautiful neighborhoods, ample parkland and walking trails, superior community services and premier education institutions. Creve Coeur offers easy access to three major hospitals - Mercy Hospital, Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital and Missouri Baptist Medical Center - and a host of clinics and physician's offices. Education in Creve Coeur offers exceptional choices in private, parochial and public schools. Creve Coeur has more parks than any other municipality in west St. Louis County that encompass approximately 100 acres including a nine-hole golf course and an indoor year-round ice-skating arena.
Creve Coeur, French for "broken heart", has its roots in farming, and has evolved into a thriving city. The origin of the city's name is a mystery with one tale suggesting that the name originated with an Indian princess names Memetonwish, who is said to have fallen in unrequited love with a French trapper. Heartbroken, the Indian princess threw herself from a ledge overlooking Creve Coeur Lake, which then reshaped itself in the form of a broken heart. Others believe that the name originated from a flood that caused great heartache. Regardless of how the name came about, Creve Coeur became a popular location for German settlers in the early 1800s, and although they continued to speak German in their everyday lives, they left the French name of Creve Coeur intact.
Business is booming along Creve Coeur's diverse and strong commercial corridor, which offers 5.1 million square feet of commercial space. Home to Fortune 500 headquarters it is also recognized as a key node in the St. Louis region for technology, life and biosciences and medical services. In fact, in addition to Bayer, formally Monsanto Corporation, the Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the Bio Research and Development Growth Park (BRDG) are all located in Creve Coeur.

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CREVE COEUR FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 

The Creve Coeur Fire Protection District services approximately 26 square miles, with a population of approximately 30,000 people. It has two fire houses, one at 11720 Olive Blvd. and one at 10940 Schuetz Road. The District employs fifty six (56) individuals of which thirty-seven (37) have Paramedic licenses. The Creve Coeur Fire Protection District is headed by three elected officials called its Board of Directors. It has an operating budget of approximately $13,000,000 and is funded by the taxpayers/citizens of the Fire District.
Creve Coeur Fire Protection District
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