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Harvel, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Harvel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62538. The Survey maps it on the Raymond quadrangle. 178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 638 feet above sea level.

Harvel within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Harvel fell from 223 to 178 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
2010223
2020178-45 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Harvel in 2005, burning under an acre 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/undetermined1

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 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harvel in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. 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
December 2018Tornado (EF0)Harvel-The tornado touched down just south of the Christian/Montgomery County line, near the intersection of E000 North Rd and N400 East Rd. It damaged an outbuilding by knocking out a wall and pushed it off it's foundation, before entering Christian County (WFO ILX County Warning Area). This segment of the tornado (Montgomery County IL) was rated EF0 with a path length of 0.06 miles and a max path width of 25 yards. No injuries or deaths were reported in Montgomery County. The entire tornado was rated EF0. It's path length was 3.1 miles with a max path width of 200 yards. No injuries or deaths were reported.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Harvel-A small tornado formed northwest of Harvel and tracked northeast into Christian County. Damage was limited to trees and crops.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindHarvel-Winds gusted to 70 mph uprooting several trees.
April 2017HailHarvel-no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindHarvel-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHarvel-no account filed
April 1997HailHarvel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Raymond3.3 miles13
Waggoner6.6 miles12
Zanesville6.8 miles10
Shop Creek8.2 miles10
Honey Bend8.5 miles13
Farmersville8.7 miles12
Sunrise Hills9.6 miles12
Stagecoach Junction10.4 miles12

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 HarvelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2536947The 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 409902. 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.