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Coal Valley, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Coal Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61240. The Survey maps it on the Coal Valley quadrangle. 3,873 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Coal Valley within Rock Island County

Population over time

2 figures

Coal Valley grew from 3,743 to 3,873 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
20103,743
20203,873+130 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Coal Valley between 2008 and 2011, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
11 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesIDNR
16 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMM15
24 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMID AMERICA
22 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPOLE
15 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLOWER
2 January 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPUCKETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rock Island 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
Poplar Grove2.0 miles14
Bridgeway Addition3.8 miles23
Fruitland4.2 miles23
Glendale (historical)4.6 miles14
East Moline5.1 miles21
Coyne Center5.5 miles23
Ginger Hill5.7 miles23
Carbon Cliff5.9 miles14

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 Coal ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2318044The 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 406304. 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.