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Calhoun, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62419. The Survey maps it on the Olney quadrangle. 164 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Calhoun within Richland County

Population over time

2 figures

Calhoun fell from 172 to 164 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
2010172
2020164-8 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Calhoun in 2010, 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
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
6 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSLOAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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 Calhoun: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
N.Parkersburg Shale ExposureClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calhoun in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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 2016Thunderstorm WindCalhoun$25,000Several trees and power poles were blown down in Calhoun.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCalhoun$12,000Several trees were blown down onto Sunnybrook Road southwest of Olney.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCalhoun$10,000Trees were blown down onto Meridian Road southeast of Olney.
June 2006HailCalhoun-Hail caused corn crop damage.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCalhoun-Several power lines were blown down in Calhoun.
August 2022HailCalhoun-no account filed
April 2017HailCalhoun-no account filed
May 2005HailCalhoun-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindCalhoun-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Elbow4.2 miles10
Parkersburg4.2 miles9
Olney6.0 miles10
Fransonia (historical)6.1 miles10
Claremont6.1 miles13
Seminary6.4 miles10
Watertown (historical)6.4 miles10
Gallagher6.6 miles10

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 CalhounAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q428722The 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 405354. 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.