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Bath, Illinois

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bath Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62617. It lies near Grand Island. The Survey maps it on the Bath quadrangle. 279 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 460 feet above sea level.

Bath within Mason County

Population over time

2 figures

Bath fell from 333 to 279 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
2010333
2020279-54 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bath between 2004 and 2008, burning about 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
17 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10
13 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources6
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois River National Wildlife RefugeSPOON RIVER 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bath: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Holle Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Otter Creek DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bath in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1996Tornado (F2)Bath1 hurtno account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindBath$200,000As a bow echo moved east across Mason County, numerous trees were blown down. Some of the trees caused minor structural damage. Also, a roof was lifted off of a house and an old drive-in movie screen was blown over. Five miles west of Manito, several power lines and trees were blown down in the Woodland Estates Subdivision. Several homes sustained minor damage from the fallen trees. A 60 mph wind gust was reported in Bath. Damage in Mason County due to the thunderstorm winds was estimated around $200,000.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBath$100,000As a line of severe thunderstorms moved through Mason County, numerous trees, tree limbs, and power lines were blown down. Also, thousands of acres of corn were laid down. At the intersection of Route 97 and the Bath blacktop, a tree was blown over onto a van trapping its occupants. They were freed by rescue crews and sustained no injuries. In the Sanganois conservation area, another car was trapped by a fallen tree, but there were no injuries. Damage to the crops was estimated around $12.3 million.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBath$500Large trees were blown down 4 miles south of town.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBath-Tree limbs were blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBath-A tree was blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindBath-Several large trees were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBath-Six to eight power poles were blown down .
April 1998Tornado (F1)Bath-The tornado touched down on the south side of town and moved north. A frame house received damage to the middle part of the roof and an unattached garage was destroyed. The garage debris was deposited on a neighbor's roof. The tornado continued north through town, snapping off telephone poles and took half the roof off of another house. Debris from this roof was thrown half a mile and landed next to the Illinois River. Exterior walls of this house were also buckled inward up to three feet. Another unattached garage was destroyed, part of the roof of the Bath Firehouse was torn off, and numerous 3 to 4 foot diameter trees were uprooted. Several more homes and businesses sustained minor damage with siding, shingle, and fence damage before the tornado lifted and dissipated. In Bath, nine homes were severely damaged with a total of 43 homes receiving some kind of damage. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.
June 1999HailBath-no account filed
April 1998HailBath-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Moscow (historical)2.4 miles16
Matanzas3.4 miles15
Matanzas Beach4.0 miles15
Lakewood4.8 miles15
Long Branch5.7 miles15
Saidora6.1 miles15
Kelsey6.2 miles15
Conover6.3 miles15

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 BathAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2061009The 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 403964. 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.