Alhambra, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Alhambra Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62001. The Survey maps it on the New Douglas quadrangle. 622 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 564 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAlhambra fell from 681 to 622 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 681 | |
| 2020 | 622 | -59 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1937 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:48000
- 1937 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Alhambra between 2014 and 2016, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14047 |
| 2 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | I55 @ 337MM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alhambra in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alhambra | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew in a garage door in Alhambra. |
| September 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alhambra | $500 | Numerous large trees were blown down. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alhambra | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town as well as several fences. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alhambra | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the metal roof off of a shed and part of the roof off of a grain silo. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alhambra | - | Several small trees were blown down. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Alhambra | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Alhambra | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Alhambra | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Alhambra | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alhambra | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Alhambra | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Castle | 0.7 miles | 11 | |
| Kaufman | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Grantfork | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Livingston | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Hamel | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Worden | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| New Douglas | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Williamson | 6.9 miles | 15 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Alhambra | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1760418 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 403409. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






