Beaverville, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Beaverville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60912. The Survey maps it on the Beaverville quadrangle. 306 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.
On record in Beaverville
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
St. Mary's Churchlisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresBeaverville fell from 362 to 306 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 | 362 | |
| 2020 | 306 | -56 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1935 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Beaverville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
10,507 words on this townshipHistory of Iroquois County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and Other Authentic, Though, for the Most Part, Out-of-the-way Sources, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Beaverville Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Beaverville Township - 10,507 words.
Fires near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Beaverville between 2013 and 2014, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13-00024 |
| 27 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-00027 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beaverville: 1 past producer. None of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kendall Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaverville in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverville | $5,000 | The roof of a barn was damaged between Donovan and Beaverville. Tree damage was also reported near Beaverville. |
| April 2026 | Tornado (EFU) | Beaverville | - | Several videos were shared of a slow-moving landspout tornado that occurred a few miles east of Beaverville and north northeast of Donovan in rural northeast Iroquois County. No known damage was reported. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverville | - | A brick wall collapsed and took down a power line. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Beaverville | - | A brief tornado was reported northwest of Beaverville. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverville | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Beaverville | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaverville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Hooper | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Hooper | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Papineau | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Martinton | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Donovan | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Pittwood | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Freedville | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Iroquois | 9.6 miles | 13 |
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 Beaverville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671674 | 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 404070. 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.







