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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.

Good Hope within McDonough County

Population over time

2 figures

Good 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.

YearPeople Change
2010396
2020363-33 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2016Tornado (EF2)Good Hope$200,000An 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 2010Flash FloodGood Hope$100,000Heavy 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 2009Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$50,000Wind 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 1999Tornado (F2)Good Hope$5,500no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindGood Hope$1,000Two power poles were knocked down by high winds. Scattered power outages were also reported in Macomb. INDIANA, Central
September 2005HailGood Hope$1,000no account filed
June 2024Tornado (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 2023Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-Several trees damaged and trunks snapped off in Good Hope. Winds estimated near 100 mph.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-Measured 88 mph wind gust with 70 mph wind gusting during 15 minute period. RV flipped.
May 2023HailGood Hope-Report gathered from Mping.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-Several trees damaged and trunks snapped in Good Hope. Winds estimated near 100 MPH.
May 2022Tornado (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 2015Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-A farm outbuilding collapsed in damaging winds, in addition to 9 power poles, and tree limbs down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-Trees reported down across northern portion of McDonough County, including Good Hope, and Macomb.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-A trained spotter measured 58 mph winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-Wind gusts estimated to be 50 to 60 mph were observed in Good Hope, IL at 1032 pm June 21.
June 2002Flash FloodGood Hope-Water covered Route 9 making it impassable in spots.
May 2023HailGood Hope-no account filed
May 2022HailGood Hope-no account filed
April 2020HailGood Hope-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGood Hope-no account filed
April 1995HailGood Hope-no account filed

Every storm 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
Sciota4.2 miles16
Scottsburg4.2 miles16
Little Ireland (historical)5.2 miles20
Spring Creek Settlement (historical)5.6 miles16
Lamone Village5.7 miles20
University Village6.4 miles20
East Village6.5 miles20
Macomb6.8 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 Good HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671874The 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.