Cleveland, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hanna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61241. The Survey maps it on the Port Byron quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Cleveland within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Cleveland fell from 188 to 163 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	188
2020	163	-25 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

1892 USGS Leclaire quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Leclaire quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1899 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:125000
1899 USGS Cordova quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Port Byron quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Port Byron quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Port Byron quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Port Byron quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

1,923 words on this township

History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Hanna Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first church organization in the Township of Hanna, also the first in the county, was at the house of P. K. Hanna, in the Fall of 1835, where the Methodist Society was organized. Rev. Colin D. James was the first pastor. Among the active workers of the church were : John P. Hanna, C. Renshaw, James Searle, Thomas Hill, William Shafer, as class leaders ; P. K. Hanna, and Daniel Walsh, as local preachers. And also Henry Hand, who deserves to be mentioned as one of the most earnest supporters of the church.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877.

In 1854, the society built a brick church at a cost of three thousand dollars, known as the " Rock River Chapel." This was used by the society until the Fall of 1875, when they built a much finer church in the village of Cleveland, at a cost of four thousand five hundred dollars. The board of trustees are P. K. Hanna, Henry Hand, Thomas Hill, Will Shafer, J. H. Sale, J. A. Sawyer, and Milton Hill. The present membership is eighty ; Sabbath-school attendance, one hundred. Rev. P. K. Hanna and wife, Geo. A. Colbert and wife, Mrs. Sullivan and two daughters, were among the original members.

In 1870-71, a church was built on Sec. 27, N.W. corner of S.W.J, at a cost of $3,500. Rev. J. S. McClung was stated supply of the church from the date of its organization until March, 1871. The present pastor, Rev. F. I. Moffatt, served the church as stated supply from October, 1871, up to Dec. 10, 1872, when he was installed pastor, in which capacity he still officiates. The original members were : H. S. Rogers, Mrs. Phoebe Rogers, W. W. Winters, Mrs. Virginia Winters, Win. Allen, Mrs. Margaret Allen, Thomas Rowland, Mrs. C. T. McClung, Mrs. A. C. Torence, John Fleming, Mrs. Mary A. Fleming, Mrs. Sarah A. Calender, A. E. Benedict, Mrs. Harriet T. Benedict, Gabriel Romig, James J. Dickey, Mrs. Caroline E. Dickey, Isaac Callender, James Orr, Alexander Walker, W. H. Torrence. The present membership is seventy-three ; Sabbath-school attendance about forty.

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 Hanna Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.

Fires near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Cleveland between 2008 and 2018, burning about 7 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
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 July 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	TREE
3 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-111
24 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	18-108 MM 1 I-88
6 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-090
12 March 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	18-043
20 February 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-032
18 February 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-027
16 December 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-200

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cleveland: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mc Dowell Sand & Excavating	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oberlander Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cleveland Quarry Plant #31	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hillside Plt & Quay Midway Stone	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rock River Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleveland in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cleveland	$10,000	Numerous trees and some farm outbuildings were blown down along route 6 between Colona and Geneseo.
February 2019	Flood	Cleveland	-	Snowmelt, rainwater, and elevated river levels from ice jams in the area, brought the Rock River at Joslin above major flood stage of 16.5 feet, at 5 PM, February 26th. It crested at 16.55 feet, at midnight, February 27th, before falling back below major stage at 7 AM February 27th.
August 2023	Hail	Cleveland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dayton	1.2 miles	12
Green River	2.1 miles	12
Colona	2.5 miles	12
Level Acres	2.6 miles	12
Green Rock	3.2 miles	12
Woodcrest	3.4 miles	12
Hickory Hills	3.5 miles	12
Briar Bluff	4.1 miles	12

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 Cleveland	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671756	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 406244. 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.