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Greenview, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Greenview No. 6 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62642. The Survey maps it on the Greenview quadrangle. 745 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 542 feet above sea level.

Greenview within Menard County

Population over time

2 figures

Greenview fell from 778 to 745 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
2010778
2020745-33 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenview in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGreenview$60,000Several utility poles were blown down along North Middletown Blacktop.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGreenview$36,000Numerous trees and tree branches were blown down in Greenview. One power pole was snapped.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenview$35,000Several large trees and power lines were blown down on Rt. 29.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGreenview$15,000Numerous trees were blown down in Greenview.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenview$6,000A power pole was knocked down and shingles were blown off a roof.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenview$4,000Several branches were blown down in eastern Menard County.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGreenview$2,000A 4-foot diameter tree was blown down across IL-29 on the north side of Greenview.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGreenview$2,000A four-foot diameter tree was blown down in Greenview.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenview$2,000A large tree was blown down in Greenview.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGreenview-A tree was blown down, resulting in damage to a garage and power lines.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Minor tree and structural damage at a home east of Greenview.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Three trees were blown down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Large tree branches were blown down and blocked a road in Greenview.
June 2015Flash FloodGreenview-Thunderstorms with heavy rain produced more than 2.00 of rain in one hour in a small part of central Menard County. Several roads were impassable, including Illinois Route 29 south of Greenview, Illinois Route 123 east of Petersburg and rural roads between Petersburg and Sweetwater.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Power lines blown down.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenview-20 power poles were snapped off along Route 29 near Salt Creek.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Greenview-Tornado briefly touched down causing minor siding damage to one home.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down around town. Falling trees damaged a deck and swimming pool in a local yard.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Numerous large tree branches were blown down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Power lines blown down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Large tree limbs blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines. Also, a small section of the high school roof was blown off and part of the roof of a barn was damaged.
October 2004Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Power lines down in Greenview.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGreenview-Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down in the Greenview area.
March 2024HailGreenview-no account filed
April 2017HailGreenview-no account filed
June 2015HailGreenview-no account filed
May 2009HailGreenview-no account filed
May 2004HailGreenview-no account filed
May 2004HailGreenview-no account filed
December 2002Thunderstorm WindGreenview-no account filed
August 2002HailGreenview-no account filed
July 1996HailGreenview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Menard 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
Sweetwater3.1 miles15
Curtis3.1 miles13
Hubly5.5 miles14
Culver5.9 miles15
Tice7.4 miles14
Petersburg7.6 miles13
Old Salem Chautauqua8.1 miles14
Hilltop8.3 miles13

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 GreenviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2122185The 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 409443. 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.