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Floraville, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Millstadt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62298. The Survey maps it on the Millstadt quadrangle. 49 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Floraville within St. Clair County

Population over time

2 figures

Floraville fell from 53 to 49 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
201053
202049-4 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

In the county-history sources

11,773 words on this township

History of St. Clair County, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Millstadt Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Millstadt Township - 11,773 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Floraville in 2011, burning about 10 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 April 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRITTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Floraville: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floraville in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
April 1994Thunderstorm WindFloraville$50,000Dime-size hail was reported along with wind gusts to 40 mph in Dupo. Trees were also blown down in Floraville damaging several homes while one-inch hail was reported in Millstadt.
April 2025Tornado (EF0)Floraville$10,000A brief and weak tornado touched down on Schwab Road, southwest of Millstadt at 8:14 PM. It destroyed an outbuilding and produced tree damage along Schwab Road with winds estimated as high as 85 mph. The tornado dissipated shortly thereafter at 8:15 PM. The tornado was rated EF-0 with a path length of 0.75 miles and a maximum path width of 100 yards.
March 2025Tornado (EF0)Floraville-The tornado then moved into rural St. Clair County where it caused minor tree damage northwest of Floraville. It was here where the tornado dissipated at approximately 10:15 PM. In St. Clair County the tornado was rated EF-0 with a path length of 2.37 miles and a maximum path width of 25 yards.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindFloraville-Thunderstorm winds downed a tree over Vogel School Road just north of Floraville.
March 2024HailFloraville-Hail up to golfball size fell across the central portions of St. Clair County. Large hail was reported in Smithton, Douglas, Freeburg and Mascoutah.
April 2005Flash FloodFloraville-Very heavy rain fell in a short amount of time over St. Clair County. This caused Kopp Creek, west of Floraville, to rise out of its banks for a time.
May 2012HailFloraville-no account filed
May 2004HailFloraville-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Paderborn1.3 miles18
Smithton4.1 miles13
Bohleysville4.3 miles18
Douglas5.1 miles13
Roachtown6.0 miles18
Millstadt6.2 miles18
Rodemich6.2 miles20
Darmstadt (historical)7.2 miles20

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 FloravilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5460494The 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 426341. 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.