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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.

Beaverville within Iroquois County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Beaverville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010362
2020306-56 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

10,507 words on this township

History 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 2013

Regional 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 use1
Debris and open burning1

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
14 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-00024
27 April 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-00027

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iroquois County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kendall PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iroquois County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBeaverville$5,000The roof of a barn was damaged between Donovan and Beaverville. Tree damage was also reported near Beaverville.
April 2026Tornado (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 2019Thunderstorm WindBeaverville-A brick wall collapsed and took down a power line.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Beaverville-A brief tornado was reported northwest of Beaverville.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBeaverville-no account filed
March 2016HailBeaverville-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBeaverville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iroquois 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
North Hooper2.5 miles11
Hooper2.8 miles11
Papineau3.4 miles12
Martinton4.6 miles12
Donovan5.3 miles11
Pittwood7.6 miles11
Freedville8.0 miles11
Iroquois9.6 miles13

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 BeavervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671674The 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.