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Colp, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Blairsville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62921. It stands on Little Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Herrin quadrangle. 168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Colp within Williamson County

Population over time

2 figures

Colp fell from 225 to 168 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
2010225
2020168-57 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Colp between 1993 and 2019, burning about 160 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 2019Debris and open burning97 acresCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMONROE
28 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10217
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10163
7 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10137
4 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10136
5 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10077
24 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeMARINA
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13058

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colp in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2014Thunderstorm WindColp$15,000A power pole snapped in Herrin, and another pole snapped two miles north of Colp. Tree limbs were blown down along Highway 13 near Carterville.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindColp-Trees were down in Colp, and an off-duty meteorologist estimated gusts to 60 MPH near Herrin.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindColp-no account filed
May 2009HailColp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Clifford1.3 miles18
Sunnyside1.4 miles18
Dewmaine1.7 miles18
Blairsville2.3 miles18
Cambria2.7 miles18
Herrin2.8 miles18
Carterville3.1 miles18
Fredonia3.2 miles18

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 ColpAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2315919The 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 406396. 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.