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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.

Hamburg within Calhoun County

Population over time

2 figures

Hamburg 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.

YearPeople Change
2010128
202099-29 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 1996

Regional 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
13 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresMissouri Department of Conservation122150-02379-04132015-1100
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeNATURE TRAIL WILDFIRE
21 March 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesADAM BAILEY
12 March 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRIAN JOHNSON FIRE
12 March 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeSWLVE
10 March 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeBYANTS CREEK
1 November 2000Natural40 acresGreat Rivers National Wildlife RefugeABC
6 October 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fox Creek Shale ExposureClayProspect
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees across the far northern portions of Calhoun County.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindHamburg-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree on the south side of Hamburg.
December 1996HailHamburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Mozier Landing1.8 miles13
Mozier4.6 miles13
Michael5.0 miles14
Star City7.0 miles15
Birch Island7.1 miles15
Hardin7.3 miles14
Kampsville7.4 miles12
Gilead7.8 miles15

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 HamburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672139The 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.