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Coatsburg, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Honey Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62325. The Survey maps it on the Coatsburg quadrangle. 150 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Coatsburg within Adams County

Population over time

2 figures

Coatsburg grew from 147 to 150 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
2010147
2020150+3 (+2%)

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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Coatsburg between 2014 and 2015, burning about 22 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 burning5
Smoking1

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
1 April 2015Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015016
31 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015015
30 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014019
16 March 2015Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015009
15 March 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015009
28 February 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coatsburg in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCoatsburg1 hurtAn intense bow echo moved through Coatsburg, Camp Point and Clayton. Hundreds of trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. A couple of power poles were also snapped off. Several trees and tree limbs landed on homes causing minor to moderate roof damage. Also, in Camp Point the entire roof of a business was blown off. One woman was injured after falling down her basement steps as her family was taking shelter from the storm. It took more than an hour for an ambulance to respond to the woman's home near Coatsburg because of the downed trees blocking highways and lots of secondary roads.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCoatsburg$10,000Thunderstorm winds lifted off a portion of a school's old gym roof.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCoatsburg-A three foot diameter tree was uprooted and numerous tree limbs were blown down around town. Also, a large section of fencing was blown over.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCoatsburg-Thunderstorm winds rolled an unoccupied fifth wheel trailer at Cedar Lakes Campground twice before it landed next to some trees. Also, several large tree limb at the campground where blown down and one large tree was uprooted.
April 1995HailCoatsburg-Golf ball-size hail was reported by the county sheriff.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCoatsburg-no account filed
May 2019HailCoatsburg-no account filed
September 2014HailCoatsburg-no account filed
April 2013Thunderstorm WindCoatsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Paloma2.1 miles14
Columbus3.1 miles13
Camp Point4.7 miles14
Fowler5.6 miles15
Bigneck7.2 miles14
Mendon7.7 miles15
Bloomfield8.0 miles15
Blacks8.8 miles15

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 CoatsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2482042The 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 406313. 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.