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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.

Ellis Grove within Randolph County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Ellis 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.

YearPeople Change
2010363
2020328-35 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2014

Regional 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 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
27 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources29-2014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hepp Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cohen PropertyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2016Thunderstorm WindEllis Grove-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town.
July 2004HailEllis Grove-A local radio station reported quarter size hail in Ellis Grove.
April 2002HailEllis Grove-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 2021HailEllis Grove-no account filed
September 2016HailEllis Grove-no account filed
May 2011HailEllis Grove-no account filed
April 2007HailEllis Grove-no account filed
April 2007HailEllis Grove-no account filed
March 2006HailEllis Grove-no account filed
April 2006HailEllis Grove-no account filed
April 2006HailEllis Grove-no account filed
May 2006HailEllis Grove-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindEllis Grove-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindEllis Grove-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindEllis Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Reily Lake2.2 miles24
Collins2.4 miles12
Fort Gage3.3 miles24
Roots3.6 miles12
Diamond Cross3.9 miles23
Old Kaskaskia4.2 miles24
New Palestine4.6 miles23
Evansville5.9 miles12

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 GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1984286The 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.