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.
Population over time
2 figuresCoal 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,743 | |
| 2020 | 3,873 | +130 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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.
- 1937 USGS Orion quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Coal Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Coal Valley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Coal Valley quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2008Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | IDNR |
| 16 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MM15 |
| 24 July 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MID AMERICA |
| 22 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | POLE |
| 15 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | LOWER |
| 2 January 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | PUCKETT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poplar Grove | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Bridgeway Addition | 3.8 miles | 23 | |
| Fruitland | 4.2 miles | 23 | |
| Glendale (historical) | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| East Moline | 5.1 miles | 21 | |
| Coyne Center | 5.5 miles | 23 | |
| Ginger Hill | 5.7 miles | 23 | |
| Carbon Cliff | 5.9 miles | 14 |
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 Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2318044 | 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 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.








