Hampton, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Hampton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61256. It lies near Kay Island. The Survey maps it on the Silvis quadrangle. 1,779 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Hampton within Rock Island County

On record in Hampton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Black's Storelisted 1976

Population over time

2 figures

Hampton fell from 1,863 to 1,779 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	1,863
2020	1,779	-84 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1892 USGS Leclaire quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Leclaire quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1899 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:125000
1899 USGS Cordova quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1949 USGS Silvis quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Silvis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1991 USGS Silvis quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

807 words on this township

Historic Rock Island County; History of the Settlement of Rock Island County from the Earliest Known Period to the Present Time ... Embracing References of Importance, and Including a Biography of Rock Island County's Well-known Citizens, published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Hampton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Village of Hampton, in Hampton Township, was surveyed and platted soon after the organization of Rock Island County. Among the earliest business men were Joel Thompson, Alonzo P. Clapp, Dower and Hammond, Samuel and David Lambert, M. W. Wright and Francis Black, followed by L. F. Baker, H. F. Thomas, H. O. Norton, Dr. George Vincent, S. L. Brettun, and Wm. B. Webster. The first postoffice was established in the winter of 1837, Joel Thompson being commissioned postmaster, followed by Francis Black, Samuel Heagy and L. F Baker. From the earliest settlement Hampton was one of the principal points for supplies for the farmers in the upper end of the county, and even considerable territory in Henry County. Here they brought their grain and sold their pork, which was packed by M. W. Wright and Francis Black, and shipped down the river by the steamboats. In after years the coal interests were the principal business reliance; Heagy and Stoddard and Taylor Williams being extensive operators. In 1884 Heagy and Stoddard were succeeded by the Northern Mining & Railway Company, who ceased operations about fifteen

Passage source: Historic Rock Island County; History of the Settlement of Rock Island County from the Earliest Known Period to the Present Time ... Embracing References of Importance, and Including a Biography of Rock Island County's Well-known Citizens, published 1908.

The assessors' plats show there exists in the Village of Hampton, an old village called Milan, which was platted in 1837. The plat showing about thirty blocks. In this district at the present time are only four or five houses. In that year the postoffice department at Washington, D. C, was petitioned for a postoffice at this place to be called Milan. There being a postoffice of that name already in the state, the department established the postoffice under the name of Hampton, from which name the township and village derive their names.

Barstow is not an incorporated village. When the Sterling branch of the Chicago, Burlington A: Quincy Railfoad was completed through Hampton Township, a station was established on land owned by Joel G. Franklin, and named Franklin Crossing, a postoffice being soon after established and given the same name as the railroad station, and Mr. Franklin being commissioned its first postmaster.

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 Hampton Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hampton between 2008 and 2018, burning about 15 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 burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
4 July 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	TREE
3 July 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-111
24 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	18-108 MM 1 I-88
6 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-090
3 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	H AVE AND E 49, IA
16 December 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	17-200
12 November 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	18-170

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rock Island 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 Hampton: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Le Claire Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Rock Island County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hampton in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 2010	Lightning	Hampton	$2,000	Lightning struck a house, setting fire to the attic. Time is estimated.
September 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Hampton	-	Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down a 3 inch diameter tree branch across a road in Hampton, IL around 335 pm CDT September 21.
March 2023	Hail	Hampton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rock Island 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cedar Brook	1.9 miles	23
Babcock	2.0 miles	21
Silvis	3.0 miles	21
Barstow	3.8 miles	23
Rapids City	3.9 miles	23
East Moline	4.2 miles	21
Carbon Cliff	4.3 miles	14
Glendale (historical)	4.9 miles	14

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 Hampton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2178330	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 409723. 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.