Crossville, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Phillips Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62827. The Survey maps it on the Crossville quadrangle. 623 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Crossville within White County

Population over time

2 figures

Crossville fell from 745 to 623 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	745
2020	623	-122 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1940 USGS Carmi quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Carmi quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Crossville quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crossville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Carmi Dredge and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

26 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crossville in 26 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flood, 3 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
April 2011	Lightning	Crossville	2 hurt	A man and his son were struck by lightning while hunting. The lightning apparently struck the barrel of a shotgun being carried by the son. Both were hospitalized with minor to moderate injuries.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	$100,000	Widespread wind damage occurred in Crossville, including very large tree branches that were snapped. Many trees were blown down or uprooted, along with structural damage to several buildings and houses. Numerous power lines were blown down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	$75,000	A tractor-trailer rig was blown over west-southwest of Grayville on Interstate 64. In the same vicinity, a large electric transmission line and double power poles were blown down onto a roadway. Multiple large trees were blown down along Highway 1 between Crossville and Grayville. Numerous power lines were down in and around Crossville.
April 2011	Lightning	Crossville	$50,000	Lightning struck a mobile home, starting a fire that destroyed it.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	$40,000	A few pole barns were damaged or destroyed.
December 2015	Flood	Crossville	$15,000	Creeks and small streams went out of their banks, resulting in water over some rural roads. North of Carmi, a car became stranded in deep water on a rural road. The car could not be immediately retrieved due to the strong current.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	$15,000	no account filed
May 2000	Lightning	Crossville	$5,000	Lightning hit the stand-by generator at the sewage disposal plant, completely destroying it.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	$3,000	Some roof shingles were torn off. A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to 65 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	$3,000	Several shingles were blown off a home, and tree limbs were blown down. A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 60 mph. The gusty winds lasted about 5 to 10 minutes.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Crossville	-	A creek in Crossville quickly overtopped its banks.
April 2017	Flood	Crossville	-	Following the flash flooding during the early morning hours, some road flooding lingered into the early afternoon hours. Illinois Route 1 was flooded and impassable between Carmi and Crossville. U.S. Route 45 remained flooded near Enfield. Several streets in Carmi were flooded.
February 2017	Hail	Crossville	-	This large hail was associated with the tornadic supercell that produced the strong tornado that passed south of Crossville into southwest Indiana.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	-	A trained spotter measured a wind gust to 60 mph.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	-	A large tree about 20 feet tall and two feet in diameter was uprooted. A larger pine tree was snapped.
July 2016	Flood	Crossville	-	Small stream flooding was reported. An observer in the nearby city of Carmi measured 4.30 inches of rain in approximately 48 hours.
June 2015	Heavy Rain	Crossville	-	Creeks were starting to overflow onto roadways and into yards.
November 2015	Heavy Rain	Crossville	-	A trained spotter measured a rainfall total of about 2.3 inches in the past 24 hours.
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	-	A trained spotter estimated the wind gusted to 70 mph.
August 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	-	A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 65 mph. Tree branches were blown down.
September 2012	Hail	Crossville	-	Pea to dime size hail was reported.
July 2001	Flood	Crossville	-	Thunderstorms dumped very heavy rain over the county, with the highest amounts near Crossville. Authorities closed a section of Route 1 near Crossville for a short time.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Crossville	-	Large quantities of marble size hail and wind gusts to 45 MPH accompanied a strong thunderstorm.
May 2017	Hail	Crossville	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Crossville	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Crossville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Harper (historical)	2.0 miles	9
Phillipstown	2.7 miles	9
Garnerville	3.3 miles	11
Calvin	4.0 miles	9
Centerville	6.0 miles	9
Epworth	6.6 miles	11
Carmi	7.0 miles	9
Brownsport (historical)	7.4 miles	11

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 Crossville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671841	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 406840. 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.