Grafton, Illinois

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 10 records

• Charles Brainerd Houselisted 1998
• Grafton Banklisted 1994
• Grafton Historic Districtlisted 1994
• Paris Mason Buildinglisted 1994
• John and Amelia McClintock Houselisted 1994
• Pere Marquette State Park Lodge and Cabinslisted 1985
• Ruebel Hotellisted 1994
• Slaten-LaMarsh Houselisted 1994
• Smith-Duncan, House and Eastman Barnlisted 1999
• Grafton Boat Workslisted 2022

Grafton fell from 674 to 626 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.

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.

• 1927 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1933 USGS Saint Charles quadrangle1:62500
• 1933 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS St. Charles quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS St Louis quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1990 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Grafton between 2010 and 2011, burning about 1,516 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Camden
• Rosedale
• Chautauqua
• Elsah
• Beltrees
• Dow

Every fire recorded in Jersey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grafton: 4 past producers. 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.

Every working recorded in Jersey County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grafton in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Jersey County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 409237. 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.