Ellendale is bounded by Manchester on the North, I-44 on the south, Hampton on the East, and the City limits on the West.

The area was first opened to industrial activity in the 1850s because of the construction of the Pacific Railroad and the mining of clay for fire brick.

Originally, the River des Peres ran through the neighborhood, from its underground beginnings in Forest Park.

The housing is mainly single-family units (almost 70 percent, running from small starter homes to larger dwellings.

Transportation is easily accessible via the highway networks that run close to the neighborhood, as are shopping opportunities.

As mentioned before, the old Scullin Steel building was turned into the St. Louis Marketplace, home to a strip mall with discount shopping, as well as some chain stores.

A five-alarm chemical fire at Chemisphere Corporation occurred about 2:30 AM on Monday, June 20, 2011, according to an online news article that day by Kim Bell of the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch.

The fire forced hundreds of people from their homes, shut down an interstate and brought hazardous materials teams to the scene.

Though no hazardous levels of chemicals were detected and no one aside from three firemen with minor shake injuries were injured, some people said they sensed a metallic taste in their mouths (the company has a rail spur that brings in rail cars carrying solvent-distribution products such as glycol ethers, alcohol, aliphatic hydrocarbons, alkalis, aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, acids, glycol ether esters, surfactants, glycols and glycerins, plasticizers and esters).