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Eddyville, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Eddyville No. 6 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62928. It stands on Frieze Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waltersburg quadrangle. 99 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Eddyville within Pope County

Population over time

2 figures

Eddyville fell from 101 to 99 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
2010101
202099-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 21 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Eddyville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 694 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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
Recreation and ceremony18
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShawnee National ForestJACKSON FALLS CAMPFIRE #2
26 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShawnee National ForestMCCONNEL
12 August 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresShawnee National ForestBELLSMITH SPRINGS
11 August 2012Recreation and ceremony12 acresShawnee National ForestFALLS
21 July 2012Recreation and ceremony1.2 acresShawnee National ForestMCCONNEL
2 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShawnee National ForestBELL SMITH
30 June 2012Smokingunder an acreShawnee National ForestJAY GAP
4 May 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShawnee National ForestDOG HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pope County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Eddyville: 10 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcclellan MineZincPast Producer
Shawnee Medium Interest Fluorine DepositLead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceBarite, Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite
Mcclellan MineFluorine-Fluorite, ZincPast Producer
Pittsburg MineFluorine-Fluorite, ZincPast Producer
Pittsburg MineFluorine-Fluorite, ZincPast Producer
D.C. Baker MineFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerFluorite
D.C. Baker MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Lost 40 MinesFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerFluorite, Galena, Sphalerite
Lost 40 MinesFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Luella MineFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pope County

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eddyville in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 1997Flash FloodEddyville2 hurt, $50,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindEddyville$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and blew a roof off a building.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindEddyville$6,000Numerous trees were uprooted, and roof damage was reported.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEddyville$1,000A tree was down.
April 2011Heavy RainEddyville-Street flooding occurred in the city limits.
November 2011HailEddyville-A swath of large hail occurred in the Eddyville area. The swath of largest hail passed a couple of miles to the north of the community.
July 2007Flash FloodEddyville-Flooding was reported in Eddyville in places that do not normally flood.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindEddyville-Trees were blown down.
November 2002HailEddyville-Golf-ball size hail fell on Illinois Route 145 north of Eddyville.
October 2000Thunderstorm WindEddyville-Trees were down.
May 2016HailEddyville-no account filed
November 2011HailEddyville-no account filed
April 2006HailEddyville-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindEddyville-no account filed
July 2004HailEddyville-no account filed
May 2003HailEddyville-no account filed
June 1998Flash FloodEddyville-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindEddyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pope 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
Watkins Ford3.4 miles20
Raum4.3 miles21
Glendale5.3 miles19
Delwood5.6 miles21
McCormick5.7 miles20
Julien Hill6.0 miles24
Hartsville6.1 miles22
Lusk6.1 miles24

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 EddyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2669218The 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 424860. 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.

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.