Ellis Grove, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ellis Grove precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62241. The Survey maps it on the Evansville quadrangle. 328 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in Ellis Grove
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
Pierre Menard HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
Population over time
2 figuresEllis Grove fell from 363 to 328 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 | 363 | |
| 2020 | 328 | -35 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1912 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ellis Grove in 2014, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 29-2014 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ellis Grove: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hepp Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Cohen Property | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellis Grove in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellis Grove | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | A local radio station reported quarter size hail in Ellis Grove. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellis Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ellis Grove | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reily Lake | 2.2 miles | 24 | |
| Collins | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Fort Gage | 3.3 miles | 24 | |
| Roots | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Diamond Cross | 3.9 miles | 23 | |
| Old Kaskaskia | 4.2 miles | 24 | |
| New Palestine | 4.6 miles | 23 | |
| Evansville | 5.9 miles | 12 |
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 Ellis Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1984286 | 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 407898. 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.






