BlockCoulterville, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Coulterville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62237. The Survey maps it on the Coulterville quadrangle. 834 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCoulterville fell from 945 to 834 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 | 945 | |
| 2020 | 834 | -111 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1914 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Coulterville: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birchler Shale Drill Hole | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Mud Creek Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coulterville in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Lightning | Coulterville | 2 hurt | Lightning struck a light pole resulting in minor injuries to 2 women standing nearby. Both women reported being stiff and sore for about 2 days and having a bad taste, "like a rusty pipe", in their mouths. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulterville | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees and numerous tree limbs. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulterville | $1,500 | Thunderstorm winds downed a utility pole in Coulterville. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulterville | $500 | County officials reported a garage blown down along Highway 154 in Baldwin. A mobile home was heavily damaged in Sparta and several mobile home roofs were damaged in Coulterville. The county sheriff also reported trees and power lines down through out the county. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Coulterville | - | Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Illinois Route 153 southwest of Coulterville. There was up to a foot and a half of water over Illinois Route 153 in several locations. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Coulterville | - | Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Illinois Route 153 southwest of Coulterville. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Coulterville | - | Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including County Line Road in several locations, at intersection with Illinois Route 154 and about a mile south of intersection with Illinois Route 13. At least one car became stranded on a flooded road about 7 miles southeast of Walsh. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulterville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a power line onto a house starting a small fire. Also, numerous large tree limbs were blown down around town. A couple of the large tree limbs caused minor to moderate damage to two vehicles in town. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulterville | - | Storm spotters reported trees down from thunderstorm wind gusts and nickel size hail. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Coulterville | - | Spotters reported golfball size hail. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulterville | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Coulterville | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Coulterville | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coulterville | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Coulterville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Coulterville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2617989 | 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 406647. 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.
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.