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Golden, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Northeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62339. The Survey maps it on the Camp Point quadrangle. 648 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Golden within Adams County

On record in Golden

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Golden grew from 644 to 648 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
2010644
2020648+4 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Golden between 2013 and 2015, burning about 22 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014024
30 March 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015013
24 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014018
22 March 2015Smoking10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2015011
14 November 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013032

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Golden in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013Thunderstorm WindGolden-Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines in Golden.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGolden-Storm spotters reported power lines down in Golden.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGolden-The County Sheriff reported trees and power lines down in Golden.
May 2019HailGolden-no account filed
December 2015HailGolden-no account filed
July 2008HailGolden-no account filed
September 2003HailGolden-no account filed
August 1999Thunderstorm WindGolden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
La Prairie2.8 miles13
Blacks2.9 miles15
Chatton3.0 miles13
Camp Point5.6 miles14
Clayton6.2 miles15
Bigneck7.6 miles14
Coatsburg9.1 miles14
Woodville10.3 miles14

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 GoldenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1990655The 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 409117. 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.

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.