Elizabethtown, Illinois
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1996. It stands in McFarlan precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62931. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rosiclare quadrangle. 220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 371 feet above sea level.
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On record in Elizabethtown
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Rose Hotellisted 1972
Population over time
2 figuresElizabethtown fell from 299 to 220 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 | 299 | |
| 2020 | 220 | -79 (-26%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
15 surveys from 24 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.
- 1916 USGS Golconda quadrangle1:62500
- 1920 USGS Goloonda quadrangle1:48000
- 1921 USGS Golconda quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Rosiclare quadrangle1:24000
- 1959 USGS Golconda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Rosiclare quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 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 Rosiclare quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Elizabethtown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | POUNDS HOLLOW #76 |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | BARREL |
| 17 August 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | PICNIC |
| 27 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | TOWER ROCK |
| 6 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Shawnee National Forest | ROGERTOWN |
| 3 April 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shawnee National Forest | HAYBALE |
| 16 April 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Shawnee National Forest | HUBIE |
| 15 April 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Shawnee National Forest | ROGERTOWN II |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 86 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Elizabethtown: 68 past producers, 8 prospects, 7 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardin City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Hillside | Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1917, 1926 | |
| Illinois - Kentucky Fluorite District | Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Silver, Cadmium | Past Producer | Fluorspar, Sphalerite, Galena | |
| Knight Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Knight Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | 1970, 1973 | |
| Knight Shop & Hms Plant | Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Rosiclare Fluorspar - Lead - Zinc District | Lead, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Quartz, Iron, Barium-Barite, Calcium | Past Producer | 1839, 1870 | |
| Rosiclare Manganese Mill | Manganese | Producer | ||
| Alco-Palmer Lead Mine | Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Alco-Palmer Lead Mine | Lead | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elizabethtown in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 | Elizabethtown | $30,000 | no account filed |
| November 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizabethtown | $10,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. One of the trees was down at the housing authority in Elizabethtown. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Elizabethtown | $5,000 | Large hail lasted about four minutes. The hail was accompanied by strong winds. Some cars were dented. |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizabethtown | $4,000 | Signs were damaged by wind. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizabethtown | $3,000 | Trees were down. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizabethtown | $1,000 | Straight-line thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto Bassett School Rd. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Elizabethtown | - | Portions of one state road and several city streets were flooded. A few portions of these roads were impassable at times. A few city and county roads were temporarily closed. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizabethtown | - | Trees were down near Elizabethtown. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Elizabethtown | - | A ranger's office in the Shawnee National Forest reported dime size hail. |
| January 2022 | Flood | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Hail | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| February 2020 | Flood | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| February 2019 | Flood | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Flash Flood | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| February 1996 | Wildfire | Elizabethtown | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizabethtown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosiclare | 2.7 miles | 24 | |
| Fairview | 3.4 miles | 24 | |
| Mineral City (historical) | 3.6 miles | 24 | |
| Peters Creek | 4.4 miles | 23 | |
| Humm Wye | 5.5 miles | 24 | |
| Shetlerville | 5.5 miles | 24 | |
| Gross | 6.1 miles | 22 | |
| Eichorn | 6.2 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 Elizabethtown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1331370 | 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 407872. 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.














