Fayetteville, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Fayetteville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62258. The Survey maps it on the Mascoutah quadrangle. 302 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Fayetteville within St. Clair County

Population over time

2 figures

Fayetteville fell from 366 to 302 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	366
2020	302	-64 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1912 USGS New Athens quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Mascoutah quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1954 USGS New Athens quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Mascoutah quadrangle1:24000

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 Fayetteville: 1 plant, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Freeburg Sand Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
	Limestone Prospect	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Occurrence

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayetteville in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayetteville	$5,000	County sheriff reported thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and power lines. A mobile home also suffered minor damage.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayetteville	$600	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Fayetteville	-	Thunderstorm winds caused considerable tree damage along Drum Hill Road north of Fayetteville. A large pine tree was snapped at the base and fell onto an unoccupied car destroying it. Several other trees were blown over. Also, a farm house had several windows blown out and the door to the sunroom torn off.
June 1997	Hail	Fayetteville	-	County sheriff reported 1 inch hail.
June 2023	Hail	Fayetteville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in St. Clair 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saint Libory	4.7 miles	11
Darmstadt	5.2 miles	11
New Athens	5.6 miles	14
Lementon	5.7 miles	14
Lenzburg	6.3 miles	14
Freeburg	7.2 miles	13
Mascoutah	7.8 miles	14
Old Marissa	8.5 miles	14

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 Fayetteville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2165884	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 426340. 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.