Hamburg, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Hamburg precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62045. It lies near North Prong Irish Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hamburg quadrangle. 99 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresHamburg fell from 128 to 99 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 | 128 | |
| 2020 | 99 | -29 (-23%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1930 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1934 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1978 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Hamburg quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hamburg between 1996 and 2017, burning about 174 acres in total. 1 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 122150-02379-04132015-1100 |
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Great Rivers National Wildlife Refuge | NATURE TRAIL WILDFIRE |
| 21 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | ADAM BAILEY |
| 12 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BRIAN JOHNSON FIRE |
| 12 March 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Great Rivers National Wildlife Refuge | SWLVE |
| 10 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Great Rivers National Wildlife Refuge | BYANTS CREEK |
| 1 November 2000 | Natural | 40 acres | Great Rivers National Wildlife Refuge | ABC |
| 6 October 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hamburg: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Creek Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Unknown Ls | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamburg in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamburg | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees across the far northern portions of Calhoun County. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamburg | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree on the south side of Hamburg. |
| December 1996 | Hail | Hamburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozier Landing | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Mozier | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Michael | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Star City | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Birch Island | 7.1 miles | 15 | |
| Hardin | 7.3 miles | 14 | |
| Kampsville | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Gilead | 7.8 miles | 15 |
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 Hamburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672139 | 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 409685. 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.







