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Evansville, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Evansville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62242. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evansville quadrangle. 547 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 390 feet above sea level.

Evansville within Randolph County

Population over time

2 figures

Evansville fell from 701 to 547 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
2010701
2020547-154 (-22%)

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Evansville: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

30 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evansville in 30 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
January 2008HailEvansville1 hurtOne man sustained a minor cut on his forehead caused by the 1 inch hail stones.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEvansville$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town. Some of the fallen limbs also knocked down a couple of power lines.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEvansville-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down between Evansville and just southwest of Modoc.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindEvansville-Several large trees were blown down.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindEvansville-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage as well as power lines in western Randolph county. Some buildings sustained minor shingle damage.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEvansville-Thunderstorm winds caused moderate roof damage to a mobile home on the east side of town and blew down several large tree limbs in Evansville.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEvansville-A 10 inch diameter tree was snapped off at the ground by thunderstorm winds.
April 2003HailEvansville-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail east of Evansville.
May 2002HailEvansville-Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindEvansville-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some power poles and power lines.
May 1995HailEvansville-Golf ball-size hail was reported.
March 2025HailEvansville-no account filed
May 2024HailEvansville-no account filed
April 2022HailEvansville-no account filed
May 2016HailEvansville-no account filed
May 2016HailEvansville-no account filed
June 2013HailEvansville-no account filed
November 2013HailEvansville-no account filed
April 2007HailEvansville-no account filed
March 2006HailEvansville-no account filed
March 2006HailEvansville-no account filed
March 2006HailEvansville-no account filed
May 2006HailEvansville-no account filed
March 2005HailEvansville-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindEvansville-no account filed
May 2004HailEvansville-no account filed
April 2002HailEvansville-no account filed
June 1998HailEvansville-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindEvansville-no account filed
December 1996Tornado (F1)Evansville-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
Marigold3.7 miles19
Preston4.3 miles13
Ruma4.4 miles13
Walsh4.6 miles13
Collins4.8 miles12
Roots5.3 miles12
Prairie5.7 miles13
Modoc5.9 miles19

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 EvansvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2308004The 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 408104. 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.

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.