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Gulfport, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Gladstone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61425. The Survey maps it on the Burlington quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Gulfport within Henderson County

Population over time

2 figures

Gulfport fell from 54 to 42 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
201054
202042-12 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Gulfport between 2013 and 2014, burning about 4 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
Debris and open burning2

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
3 May 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 January 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gulfport: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Burlington QuarriesLimestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Concrete MtStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Granite Brick Co. PitClayPast Producer
Kemper QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
Miller-Ervin QuarriesStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gulfport in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGulfport1 hurt, $200,000Trees down & semi overturned
June 2010FloodGulfport$250,000Heavy rains during the third week of June resulted in the Mississippi River at Burlington going above the moderate flood stage level of 16.5 feet on June 22 around 230 pm. It crested around 16.95 feet around 1 pm June 26. It fell below the moderate flood stage level around 4 am June 28.
June 2013FloodGulfport-Heavy rain across the region late in the month of May led to rises along the Mississippi River above major flood stage at Gladstone, Illinois and Burlington, Iowa. The Mississippi River at Gladstone and Burlington began the month above their major flood stages of 14 and 18 feet respectively and remained above major flood stage through late in the day on the 12th.
April 2001HailGulfport-Trained storm spotters reported quarter sized hail.
May 2002HailGulfport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Carthage Lake1.7 miles18
Silver Lake (historical)3.6 miles18
Heapsville3.8 miles18
Lone Tree3.9 miles18
Shokokon4.6 miles14
Carman5.3 miles14
Hopper5.4 miles17
Yellow Banks5.8 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 GulfportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2395238The 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 409559. 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.