Good Hope, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Walnut Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61438. The Survey maps it on the Good Hope quadrangle. 363 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 709 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGood Hope fell from 396 to 363 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 | 396 | |
| 2020 | 363 | -33 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1916 USGS Good Hope quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Good Hope quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Good Hope quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Good Hope quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
22 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Good Hope in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2016 | Tornado (EF2) | Good Hope | $200,000 | An EF-2 tornado with winds estimated at 115 mph touched down north of Good Hope Illinois in McDonough County. It traveled northeast, crossing into Warren County west of Prairie City and eventually into Fulton County. Several homes were severely damaged with most of the damage occurring to farm outbuildings and trees. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Good Hope | $100,000 | Heavy rains resulted flash flooding in Colchester, IL and Good Hope, IL during the evening of June 21 and early morning of June 22. Some streets were closed in Colchester due to flooding. In addition, Highway 67 in Good Hope was flooded. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $50,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph snapped a 15 inch diameter tree onto a residence on Highway 67 near the Warren-Mc Donough county line or about 3 miles south southwest of Swan Creek, IL around 731 pm June 27. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Good Hope | $5,500 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | $1,000 | Two power poles were knocked down by high winds. Scattered power outages were also reported in Macomb. INDIANA, Central |
| September 2005 | Hail | Good Hope | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Good Hope | - | A brief tornado touchdown was observed by a chaser northeast of the Macomb Municipal Airport. This tornado occurred in an open field and no damage was observed. Therefore, the tornado is rated EF-Unknown. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | Several trees damaged and trunks snapped off in Good Hope. Winds estimated near 100 mph. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | Measured 88 mph wind gust with 70 mph wind gusting during 15 minute period. RV flipped. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Good Hope | - | Report gathered from Mping. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | Several trees damaged and trunks snapped in Good Hope. Winds estimated near 100 MPH. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Good Hope | - | A storm chaser reported a nearly stationary landspout on the ground, kicking up dust. There was no observable damage to assign an EF-scale rating. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | A farm outbuilding collapsed in damaging winds, in addition to 9 power poles, and tree limbs down. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | Trees reported down across northern portion of McDonough County, including Good Hope, and Macomb. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | A trained spotter measured 58 mph winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 50 to 60 mph were observed in Good Hope, IL at 1032 pm June 21. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Good Hope | - | Water covered Route 9 making it impassable in spots. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Good Hope | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Good Hope | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Good Hope | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Good Hope | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Good Hope | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sciota | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Scottsburg | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Little Ireland (historical) | 5.2 miles | 20 | |
| Spring Creek Settlement (historical) | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Lamone Village | 5.7 miles | 20 | |
| University Village | 6.4 miles | 20 | |
| East Village | 6.5 miles | 20 | |
| Macomb | 6.8 miles | 20 |
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 Good Hope | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671874 | 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 409134. 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.
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.









