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.
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
James C. Twiss Houselisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresAviston 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,945 | |
| 2020 | 2,340 | +395 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1906 USGS Breese quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Breese quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Breese quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
32 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Hail | Aviston | $100,000 | Large 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged a shed and fence in Aviston. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew some shingles off the roof of a building in town. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | Thunderstorm winds uprooted a 4 foot diameter pine tree. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Aviston | - | Broadcast media relayed photos of 1.5 inch to 2 inch hailstones from social media. |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | Trained spotter estimated a wind gust of 65 mph in Aviston. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | Thunderstorm winds blew off some shingles on a few homes around Aviston. One mile west of Breese, a shed was blown down. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Aviston | - | Large hail up to tennis ball size damaged shingles on numerous homes in Aviston. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Aviston | - | Numerous reports of golfball to hen egg size hail throughout town. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs and a couple of power lines. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | Several telephone poles were broken. Also, numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Aviston | - | A storm spotter reported nickel size hail in Aviston. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Aviston | - | The County Sheriff reported 1 inch hail. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | 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 2025 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| January 2012 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aviston | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trenton | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Breese | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Albers | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Germantown | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Snearlyville | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Saint Rose | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Damiansville | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| New Baden | 7.0 miles | 11 |
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 Aviston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2200798 | 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 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.





