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.
Population over time
2 figuresEddyville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 101 | |
| 2020 | 99 | -2 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 21 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.
- 1917 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Brownfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Waltersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1996 USGS Waltersburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | JACKSON FALLS CAMPFIRE #2 |
| 26 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | MCCONNEL |
| 12 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Shawnee National Forest | BELLSMITH SPRINGS |
| 11 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | Shawnee National Forest | FALLS |
| 21 July 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.2 acres | Shawnee National Forest | MCCONNEL |
| 2 July 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | BELL SMITH |
| 30 June 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | JAY GAP |
| 4 May 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | DOG HOLLOW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcclellan Mine | Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Shawnee Medium Interest Fluorine Deposit | Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Barite, Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Mcclellan Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Pittsburg Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Pittsburg Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| D.C. Baker Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Fluorite | |
| D.C. Baker Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Lost 40 Mines | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Lost 40 Mines | Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | ||
| Luella Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
18 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1997 | Flash Flood | Eddyville | 2 hurt, $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eddyville | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and blew a roof off a building. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eddyville | $6,000 | Numerous trees were uprooted, and roof damage was reported. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eddyville | $1,000 | A tree was down. |
| April 2011 | Heavy Rain | Eddyville | - | Street flooding occurred in the city limits. |
| November 2011 | Hail | Eddyville | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Eddyville | - | Flooding was reported in Eddyville in places that do not normally flood. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eddyville | - | Trees were blown down. |
| November 2002 | Hail | Eddyville | - | Golf-ball size hail fell on Illinois Route 145 north of Eddyville. |
| October 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eddyville | - | Trees were down. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Eddyville | - | no account filed |
| November 2011 | Hail | Eddyville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Eddyville | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eddyville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Eddyville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Eddyville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Eddyville | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eddyville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watkins Ford | 3.4 miles | 20 | |
| Raum | 4.3 miles | 21 | |
| Glendale | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Delwood | 5.6 miles | 21 | |
| McCormick | 5.7 miles | 20 | |
| Julien Hill | 6.0 miles | 24 | |
| Hartsville | 6.1 miles | 22 | |
| Lusk | 6.1 miles | 24 |
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 Eddyville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2669218 | 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 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.











