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Bardolph, Illinois

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Macomb Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61455. It stands on Drowning Fork. The Survey maps it on the Bardolph quadrangle. 210 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Bardolph within McDonough County

Population over time

2 figures

Bardolph fell from 251 to 210 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
2010251
2020210-41 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bardolph in 2008, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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 burning2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources45
30 May 2008Naturalunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources27
14 March 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonough County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bardolph in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
May 2024HailBardolph-Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail report received on social media.
June 2024Tornado (EFU)Bardolph-A brief tornado was observed in an open field between Bushnell and Bardolph. There was no observed damage with the tornado, and therefore has been assigned an EF-Unknown.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBardolph-A public report of a pine tree snapped off about 6 feet above the ground from thunderstorm winds. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
December 2018Tornado (EF0)Bardolph-A trained spotter reported a brief tornado in a field. No damage was reported and track was estimated.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindBardolph-A trained spotter reported a barn blown over with pieces of tin spread about the area, southwest of Bardolph. One piece of tin was wrapped around a tree.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindBardolph-A trained spotter reported a barn damaged southeast of Bardolph.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindBardolph-Swath of wind damage about 6 miles east of Macomb near Bardolph extending to Bushnell. Power poles blown down, windows blown out of a house, and roof torn off a building. Winds were estimated around 70 mph. Doppler radar indicated time of occurrence about 240 pm CST at Bardolph and 245 pm CST at Bushnell.
May 1999FloodBardolph-Highway 67 was under water and Route 9 was reported flooded.
April 2020HailBardolph-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonough 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
Scottsburg4.3 miles16
New Philadelphia4.9 miles18
Bushnell5.0 miles16
Macomb6.2 miles20
Adair6.4 miles18
University Village6.4 miles20
East Village6.4 miles20
Lamone Village6.8 miles20

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 BardolphAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q542519The 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 403894. 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.