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.
Population over time
2 figuresEvansville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 701 | |
| 2020 | 547 | -154 (-22%) |
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
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hepp Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
30 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Hail | Evansville | 1 hurt | One man sustained a minor cut on his forehead caused by the 1 inch hail stones. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town. Some of the fallen limbs also knocked down a couple of power lines. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | Numerous large tree limbs were blown down between Evansville and just southwest of Modoc. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | Several large trees were blown down. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage as well as power lines in western Randolph county. Some buildings sustained minor shingle damage. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | A 10 inch diameter tree was snapped off at the ground by thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Evansville | - | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail east of Evansville. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Evansville | - | Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some power poles and power lines. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Evansville | - | Golf ball-size hail was reported. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| November 2013 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Evansville | - | no account filed |
| December 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Evansville | - | 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.
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 Evansville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2308004 | 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 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.






