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Georgetown, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Macomb City Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61455. It lies near Wigwam Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Macomb quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Georgetown within McDonough County

Population over time

2 figures

Georgetown fell from 404 to 368 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
2010404
2020368-36 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown in 2008, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 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 burning5
Natural1

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
26 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources45
30 May 2008Naturalunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources27
5 April 2008Debris and open burning25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSILBERER
14 March 2008Debris and open burning15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBROWN
14 March 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources11
15 February 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKIRBY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDonough County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone. 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
Mcdonough Hwy PitStonePast Producer
Colchester Brick & Tile Co.Clay PitClayPast Producer
Colchester PitClayPast Producer
Valentine Welch & Booz PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in McDonough 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
Lamone Village1.8 miles20
East Village2.1 miles20
University Village2.1 miles20
Little Ireland (historical)2.3 miles20
Macomb2.5 miles20
Colchester4.6 miles14
Ragtown (historical)4.9 miles14
Spring Creek Settlement (historical)6.2 miles16

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 GeorgetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5546952The 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 2633173. 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.