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Carlinville, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Carlinville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62626. It stands on Briar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carlinville West quadrangle. 5,710 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Carlinville within Macoupin County

On record in Carlinville

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Carlinville grew from 5,685 to 5,710 between 2000 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
20005,685
20105,917+232 (+4%)
20205,710-207 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

9,926 words on this township

History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Carlinville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Carlinville is now (1911), a beautiful little city 6f 3,616 population, with most of its business houses on four streets which face the square. The place is devoid of manufactories, although at one time it had nourishing machine shops, a brewery, established in 1859 by Steel & Lebherz, which continued in operation many years. This and the machine shops have long been abandoned. There were mills in Carlinville, the output of which was many hundred barrels of flour per day. These have gone out of existence, most of them having been destroyed by fire, until today not one remains.

Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.

Carlinville is a splendid trading town and has one of the. most fertile and prosperous regions in central Illinois from which to secure customers. With good roads and railroad facilities unsurpassed in the Chicago & Alton and the Illinois Traction System, the people easily reach her marts, not only from all points of the county but from adjoining territory. Her merchants are consequently busy and prosperous, as is evidenced by the modern store buildings and many handsome homes, cRurches and other structures.

Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.

In April, 1865, Carlinville received its charter as an incorporated city and since that time to the present the following men of worth and standing have acted as its chief executive officer: John M. Woodson, 1865; William B. Dugger, 1866-67; Alexander P. Bettersworth, 1868; William Farrell, 1869; Henry TT. Weer, 1870-71 ; Charles A. Walker, 1872 ; Henry H. Weer, 1873 ; James K. Fur-

Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Carlinville Township - it names this place 41 more 41 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Carlinville: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Macoupin County PitStonePast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Macoupin County

Storms near this place

50 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carlinville in 50 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 27 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
April 2002HailCarlinville$1,000,000no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F1)Carlinville$250,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage of an unknown extent throughout Carlinville.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree onto Illinois Route 4 on southeast side of town.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Thunderstorm winds blew down a small shed.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Numerous tree limbs were blown down around town. Also, a 55 foot tree was blown over crashing through a fence and into a back yard. The tree was alive but hollow. Several power lines were blown down as well.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines, and numerous tree limbs in Carlinville.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs and power lines.
May 2005HailCarlinville-Amateur radio spotters reported nickel size hail northwest of Carlinville.
June 2005HailCarlinville-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-The County Sheriff reported that a home was damaged by a downed tree.
April 2001HailCarlinville-The County Emergency Manager reported 3/4 inch hail.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees and power lines in Carlinville.
May 2000HailCarlinville-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-The County Sheriff reported power lines down on the north side of town.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-The local power company reported electric lines down just west of town.
July 2000HailCarlinville-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail in Carlinville.
May 1998HailCarlinville-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail.
May 1998HailCarlinville-A storm spotter reported 3/4 inch hail.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-Thunderstorm wind gusts destroyed a storage building and blew part of the roof off a barm.
May 1995HailCarlinville-Ham radio spotters reported threee-quarters inch diameter hail in the Brighton area. Several minutes later, the Illinois State Police and the county sheriff reported golf ball-size hail in and around Carlinville, lasting for about ten minutes.
May 2025HailCarlinville-no account filed
July 2023HailCarlinville-no account filed
April 2013HailCarlinville-no account filed
April 2011HailCarlinville-no account filed
May 2011HailCarlinville-no account filed
May 2010HailCarlinville-no account filed
June 2009HailCarlinville-no account filed
July 2008HailCarlinville-no account filed
March 2007HailCarlinville-no account filed
August 2007HailCarlinville-no account filed
June 2006HailCarlinville-no account filed
April 2005HailCarlinville-no account filed
April 2005HailCarlinville-no account filed
April 2005HailCarlinville-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-no account filed
April 2002HailCarlinville-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-no account filed
April 2002HailCarlinville-no account filed
April 2002HailCarlinville-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-no account filed
April 2002HailCarlinville-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F1)Carlinville-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCarlinville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macoupin 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
Comer4.8 miles14
Anderson4.8 miles14
Womac5.0 miles14
Macoupin6.1 miles12
Schoper6.6 miles14
Enos6.8 miles11
Standard City7.1 miles14
Reader8.6 miles11

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 CarlinvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575129The 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 405594. 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.

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.