Hainesville, Illinois
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Avon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60030. The Survey maps it on the Grayslake quadrangle. 3,546 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresHainesville fell from 3,597 to 3,546 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 | 3,597 | |
| 2020 | 3,546 | -51 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1920 USGS Grays Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1923 USGS Grays Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,165 words on this townshipThe Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Avon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In February, 1846, a Post Office was established at Hainesville, under that name, and Elijah M. Haines appointed Postmaster. In the Spring following, Mr. Haines, the original proprietor of the land, laid out and recorded the town plat of Hainesville.
Passage source: The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877.
In deciding upon a name for this township there was a spirited contest. A petition numerously signed by inhabitants of the township was presented to the Commissioners having the matter in charge, asking that the name of the town should be Hainesville. To this a remonstrance was filed by Freeman Bridge, Leonard Gage, George Thompson and Samuel L. Emery, who pro¬ posed the name of Eureka, whereupon the matter was referred to the inhabitants -of the township for a further expression of their wishes, when, at a meeting held Jan. 21, 1850, at the school house near Leonard Gage's, now Avon Centre. Avon was proposed and agreed to as the name of the town. It was according¬ ly so named by the Commissioners.
Passage source: The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877.
Lake County. The act of incorporation provided, among other things, that no road should be established within the limits of the town corporate, without the concurrence of the Board of Trustees thereof. There were rival points both on the east and west on the same line of road. The endeavor of those places was to effect a vacation of the road passing through Hainesville, and locate it further south, and thereby destroy the place. The real object of the incorpora¬ tion of this place was to obtain the power to prevent the design of its enemies from being carried into effect, which succeeded, and the place continued undis¬ turbed. Indeed, the rivals in question in time disappeared.
Passage source: The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Avon Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Fires near this place
20 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hainesville between 2008 and 2019, burning about 38 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 17-2800 |
| 30 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MARTIN |
| 7 July 2012 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-01622 |
| 21 July 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 16-1966 |
| 16 July 2012 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-01606 |
| 14 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 16-001887 |
| 16 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BLACKHAWK |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-0975 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hainesville in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Hail | Hainesville | - | Penny size hail was reported at Route 120 and Hainesville Road. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Hainesville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round Lake Park | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| Grayslake | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Round Lake | 1.5 miles | 21 | |
| Round Lake Beach | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| Rollins | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Fort Hill | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Round Lake Heights | 3.1 miles | 20 | |
| Fremont Center | 3.3 miles | 21 |
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 Hainesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2389608 | 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 409618. 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.
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.









