Beckemeyer, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wade Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62219. The Survey maps it on the Beckemeyer quadrangle. 923 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBeckemeyer fell from 1,040 to 923 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 | 1,040 | |
| 2020 | 923 | -117 (-11%) |
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
Fires near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Beckemeyer between 2001 and 2014, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | KLEIBOEKER |
| 10 March 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Beckemeyer: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton Cty Hwy Dept | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Huelsman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beckemeyer in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beckemeyer | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beckemeyer | - | Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees near Beckemeyer. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beckemeyer | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree at Redwood Street and Camp Joy Road. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beckemeyer | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees along Old U.S. Highway 50. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Beckemeyer | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Beckemeyer | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beckemeyer | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snearlyville | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Carlyle | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Frogtown | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Royal Lake Resort | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Breese | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Bartelso | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Stolletown | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Posey | 6.5 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 Beckemeyer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2036314 | 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 404073. 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.





