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Bartonville, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Limestone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61607. The Survey maps it on the Peoria West quadrangle. 5,945 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Bartonville within Peoria County

On record in Bartonville

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

Bartonville fell from 6,471 to 5,945 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
20106,471
20205,945-526 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

4,494 words on this township

The History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a History of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc. .., published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Limestone Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Limestone Township - 4,494 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bartonville in 2009, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
3 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMURR
23 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9273
20 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources261
20 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDUNDEE
2 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources904

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Bartonville: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Peoria Blacktop S & GFire Clay (Refractory)Plant
Jubilee Materials Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Pekin SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Peoria Blacktop Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peoria City PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stevers PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Peoria County

Storms near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bartonville in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
March 2020Tornado (EF1)Bartonville$300,000A tornado touched down 0.3 miles east of the Peoria Airport at 8:58 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward, doing minor damage to house roofs, fences and siding in a subdivision. Business roofs were then damaged at Madison Park Shopping Center and numerous trees at Madison Park Golf Course. Several roofs were damaged in a nearby subdivision before the tornado dissipated near the eastern portion of St. Mary's Cemetery at 9:03 PM CDT.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBartonville$60,000Numerous large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBartonville$20,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBartonville$10,000A picnic shelter was destroyed.
August 2015LightningBartonville$10,000A lightning strike caused a mobile home to catch fire in Bartonville.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindBartonville$10,000Measured wind gust of 60 mph with downed tree limbs and pea sized hail.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindBartonville$4,000A 2-foot diameter tree was blown down in Bartonville. Power outages were reported.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBartonville$1,000A large tree limb was blown down on Kimmoor Road in Limestone Township.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindBartonville$1,000An aluminum flag pole was snapped by strong winds.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBartonville-A large tree approximately 16 inches in diameter was blown onto a house.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBartonville-A large tree branch was blown down onto the roof of a house.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBartonville-A power line was blown down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBartonville-Several trees were blown down.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindBartonville-Numerous tree branches were blown down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBartonville-A tree was blown onto power lines on Fairview Drive.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBartonville-A tree was blown onto powerlines southwest of Bartonville.
September 2005HailBartonville-A large tree was also blown down in town.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindBartonville-Thunderstorms winds blew down numerous large tree branches in Bartonville.
May 2025HailBartonville-no account filed
March 2023HailBartonville-no account filed
July 2020HailBartonville-no account filed
July 2020HailBartonville-no account filed
January 2018HailBartonville-no account filed
April 2017HailBartonville-no account filed
April 2017HailBartonville-no account filed
June 2015HailBartonville-no account filed
May 2011HailBartonville-no account filed
March 2005HailBartonville-no account filed
March 2005HailBartonville-no account filed
March 2005HailBartonville-no account filed
June 2002HailBartonville-no account filed
August 2001HailBartonville-no account filed
April 2000HailBartonville-no account filed
June 1994HailBartonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Peoria 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
Kickapoo1.5 miles19
Bellevue2.8 miles19
West Peoria3.2 miles19
Tuscarora3.2 miles18
Maxwell3.7 miles19
Hollis3.8 miles18
Peoria4.5 miles21
Norwood4.5 miles19

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 BartonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1881588The 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 403950. 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.

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.