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Elkville, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Elk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62932. The Survey maps it on the Elkville quadrangle. 838 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Elkville within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Elkville fell from 928 to 838 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
2010928
2020838-90 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Elkville between 2004 and 2008, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1
10 April 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 February 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 October 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elkville in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Elkville$70,000The weak tornado destroyed several carports, a small camper, and a small garage in Dowell. Numerous trees were uprooted. Numerous homes and barns received some roof damage. An amateur radio tower was bent over. Peak winds were estimated near 75 mph. The average path width was 50 yards.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindElkville$60,000Widespread wind damage occurred across the county. Multiple trees were down, causing widespread power outages. A wind gust to 67 mph was recorded by the automated observing system at the Southern Illinois Airport near Carbondale. Power poles were down. Some roads were blocked by downed trees, including Old Route 13.
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Elkville$10,000Damage was reported at a coal company, where an office trailer was blown off its foundation. There were several eyewitness accounts of a tornado. Peak winds were estimated near 70 mph.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindElkville$9,000Severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a metal barn on U.S. Highway 51 on the north side of Elkville. A car inside the barn was heavily damaged. Trees and power lines in the immediate vicinity were blown down.
March 2012HailElkville-Dime size hail was reported just west of Elkville.
April 2002HailElkville-Golf ball size hail was reported.
March 2012Funnel CloudElkville-no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindElkville-no account filed
November 2002HailElkville-no account filed
August 2001HailElkville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Hallidayboro1.5 miles18
Dowell2.1 miles18
Ward4.1 miles18
Vergennes5.3 miles16
De Soto6.4 miles18
Grubbs7.0 miles16
Grange Hall7.8 miles18
Matthews Junction7.9 miles16

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 ElkvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229674The 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 407882. 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.

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.