BlockBartelso, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Santa Fe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62218. The Survey maps it on the Beckemeyer quadrangle. 635 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBartelso grew from 595 to 635 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 | 595 | |
| 2020 | 635 | +40 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1910 USGS Carlyle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Carlyle quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Beckemeyer quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bartelso in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Bartelso | $30,000 | A weak tornado touched down briefly 2.8 miles east-southeast of Okawville, Illinois, traveled 1.6 miles northeast and lifted 3.9 miles east-northeast of Okawville, Illinois. A few sheds and outbuildings suffered damage along the path of the tornado, including one shed that was completely destroyed. Maximum wind speed of the tornado was estimated at 85 mph at the site of the destroyed shed. Crop damage was also observed. Overall, the tornado was rated EF0 with a path length of 1.65 miles and a max path width of 50 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Bartelso | $25,000 | Up to 3.5 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time over the eastern half of Clinton County. Several roads were flooded including Old Highway 50 just west of Carlyle. Some homes in Carlyle have basement flooding and water surrounding the homes. Cranford Road was flooded about 2 miles south of Boulder. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartelso | - | Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees near Bartelso. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartelso | - | Thunderstorm winds uprooted several large trees as well as numerous tree limbs between Bartelso and Kaskaskia River. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartelso | - | A small microburst flattened portions of a corn field about a mile north of Bartelso. Also, a few nearby trees were uprooted and several large tree branches were blown down. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartelso | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a barn and snapped several power poles. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartelso | - | Thunderstorm winds blew some shingles off of a roof and blew down a section of fence in town. The winds also blew down a hay shed into a nearby pond. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartelso | - | Another swath of downburst winds caused crop and tree damage from Bartelso to the Clinton/Washington County line. Some of the fallen trees caused minor to moderate damage to several homes in Bartelso. Also, two silos south of Bartelso were damaged. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Bartelso | - | Amateur radio spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Bartelso | - | A tornado caused sporadic damage as it traveled through bottom land near the Kaskaskia River south and southeast of Bartelso. Two well built farm buildings were destroyed by the tornado, one south and the other southeast of Bartelso. Trees were also downed and mangled by the tornado. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Bartelso | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Bartelso | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Bartelso | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartelso | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartelso | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartelso | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germantown | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Royal Lake Resort | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Beckemeyer | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Snearlyville | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Posey | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Breese | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Carlyle | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Frogtown | 7.5 miles | 10 |
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 Bartelso | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2210342 | 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 403937. 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.