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Aviston, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62216. It stands on Bull Branch. The Survey maps it on the Breese quadrangle. 2,340 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Aviston within Clinton County

On record in Aviston

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Aviston grew from 1,945 to 2,340 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
20101,945
20202,340+395 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Storms near this place

32 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aviston in 32 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2024HailAviston$100,000Large hail of up to 1.5 inches in diameter fell along US 50 in Clinton County. North of Carlyle, widespread damage to siding was reported along with one broken window. Other cities along the path of the storm include Aviston, Breese, Beckemeyer, and Huey.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindAviston$3,000Thunderstorm winds damaged a shed and fence in Aviston.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindAviston$3,000Thunderstorm winds blew some shingles off the roof of a building in town.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindAviston-Thunderstorm winds uprooted a 4 foot diameter pine tree.
April 2025HailAviston-Broadcast media relayed photos of 1.5 inch to 2 inch hailstones from social media.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindAviston-Trained spotter estimated a wind gust of 65 mph in Aviston.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAviston-A wide swath of damaging winds moved through Clinton County. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Aviston, Albers, Germantown, and Bartelso. In Aviston, part of the roof of a local restaurant was blown off.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindAviston-Thunderstorm winds blew off some shingles on a few homes around Aviston. One mile west of Breese, a shed was blown down.
September 2012HailAviston-Large hail up to tennis ball size damaged shingles on numerous homes in Aviston.
April 2012HailAviston-Numerous reports of golfball to hen egg size hail throughout town.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAviston-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs and a couple of power lines.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindAviston-Downburst winds caused damage in an area from just southwest of Aviston through Breese, Beckemeyer, Carlyle, across Carlyle Lake, and into Boulder. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. Also, several fields of corn were flattened. Some homes sustained minor shingle damage in Aviston. No injuries were reported.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAviston-Several telephone poles were broken. Also, numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
March 2005HailAviston-A storm spotter reported nickel size hail in Aviston.
April 2003HailAviston-The County Sheriff reported 1 inch hail.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAviston-Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage in Trenton and Aviston. Trees and power lines were down and corn in a field was flattened by the wind.
April 2025HailAviston-no account filed
March 2017HailAviston-no account filed
January 2012HailAviston-no account filed
January 2012Thunderstorm WindAviston-no account filed
April 2012HailAviston-no account filed
April 2012HailAviston-no account filed
March 2012HailAviston-no account filed
January 2008HailAviston-no account filed
August 2008HailAviston-no account filed
August 2007HailAviston-no account filed
August 2007HailAviston-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindAviston-no account filed
July 2006HailAviston-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAviston-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAviston-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAviston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Trenton3.9 miles11
Breese4.3 miles11
Albers4.4 miles11
Germantown5.2 miles11
Snearlyville6.0 miles10
Saint Rose6.0 miles11
Damiansville6.7 miles11
New Baden7.0 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 AvistonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2200798The 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 403760. 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.

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.