BlockDamiansville, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Looking Glass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62215. It stands on Grassy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Breese quadrangle. 564 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresDamiansville grew from 491 to 564 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 | 491 | |
| 2020 | 564 | +73 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1906 USGS Breese quadrangle1:62500
- 1907 USGS Breese quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Breese quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Damiansville: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Memphis Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Damiansville in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Flood | Damiansville | 1 killed | Sugar Creek was in flood after the area received up to 5 inches of rain in 3 days. Where Sugar Creek crosses Airport Road, it was at least 2 to 3 feet deep. The road was closed with a sign denoting this. However, a 28 year old man in a GMC Sierra pickup truck drove into the flood waters around 530 am on May 12th and was swept about 75 yards down stream. A witness saw this happen and called 911. It took about 6 hours before they found his truck submerged in about 8 to 10 feet of water 75 yards south of Airport Road. He was pronounced dead at the scene. |
| September 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Damiansville | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field just northwest of Damiansville. No damage or injuries were reported with this tornado. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Damiansville | - | A small barn was blown down just north of Interstate 64 at mile marker 32...west of Damiansville. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Damiansville | - | Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including U.S. Highway 50 in Breese, Germantown Road in Breese, and Illinois Route 161 near Albers. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Damiansville | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Damiansville | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Damiansville | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albers | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| New Memphis | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| New Baden | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| New Memphis Station | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Wertenberg | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Germantown | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Aviston | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Trenton | 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 Damiansville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q303124 | 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 406935. 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.