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Andover, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Andover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61233. The Survey maps it on the Andover quadrangle. 555 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Andover within Henry County

On record in Andover

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Andover fell from 578 to 555 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.

YearPeople Change
2010578
2020555-23 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched 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.

In the county-history sources

5,251 words on this township

History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Andover Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

BURROWS B. H. Farmer, Sec. 12; P.O.Cambridge; born in Franklin Co. Mass. July 17, 1831; came to county 1869; Rep; Meth; owns 170 acres of land, val. $11,500; was married Dec. 14, 1859, to Susan C. Gould, from N. II.; has had four children, two girls and two boys, all living.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877.

OARLSSON KIJL. Clergyman, Sec. 8; P.O. Andover; born Sweden, 1822; came to county 1875; Rep; Luth; was ordained to the holy ministry in Wexio, Sweden, 1849; served as minister of the gospel in the Established Church of Sweden until June 1853, when he accepted a call of the Swedish Evang. Luth. Immanuel's Church in Chicago; after twentytwo years labor as pastor in Chicago, he moved in 1875 to Andover, and is at present pastor of the Swedish Evang. Luth. Church of said place; in 1855, he was married to Eva C. Anderson, of Temmelhed, Sweden; has two sons and two (laughters living.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877.

FRAGD JOHN M. Farmer, Sec. 18. P.O. Andover; born Jonkoping, Ian, Sweden. 1813; came to Co. 1857; Rep; Luth; owns 50 acres, val. $3,250; was married in June, 1835, to Miss Anna Helena Peterson; has had eight children, six now living; served as soldier in the royal Swedish army for 14 years.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Andover Township - it names this place 58 more 58 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Andover: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Orlo Woodcock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Andover in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1996LightningAndover$20,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAndover$10,000Semi truck blown over just after it crossed the Edwards River Bridge.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAndover-Trees down over the road near Andover.
February 2008HailAndover-A trained spotter reported hail the size of pennies.
September 2006Flash FloodAndover-A spotter reported 6 inches of water flowing over a paved township road south of town.

Every storm recorded in Henry County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Lynn Center3.5 miles11
Osco3.8 miles11
Cambridge5.3 miles11
Ophiem5.8 miles12
Orion6.3 miles12
Morristown7.1 miles12
Ulah7.9 miles11
Woodhull8.0 miles11

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 AndoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2137443The 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 403516. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.