BlockClaremont, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Claremont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62421. The Survey maps it on the Claremont quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 509 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClaremont fell from 176 to 161 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 | 176 | |
| 2020 | 161 | -15 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1911 USGS Sumner quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Sumner quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Claremont quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Claremont 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BAUMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claremont in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | $4,000 | A few trees were blown down in Claremont. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | $2,000 | A tree was blown down 3 miles south of Claremont. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | - | A large tree limb was blown down across the roadway near 1000 North and 1600 East. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Claremont | - | Report from social media. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Claremont | - | Heavy rain of 3.00 to 4.00 inches, falling onto already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding in extreme eastern Richland County from the late evening of June 11th into the early morning of June 12th. The heaviest rain and most significant flooding extended from Claremont to the Lawrence County line, mainly south of U.S. Highway 50, where several rural roads were closed. Much of the flooding subsided just after 4:00 am CDT. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Claremont | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amity | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Olney | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Calhoun | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Stringtown | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Watertown (historical) | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Berryville | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Elbow | 9.6 miles | 10 | |
| Dundas | 10.0 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 Claremont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2668055 | 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 406142. 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.
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.