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.
Population over time
2 figuresHarvel 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 223 | |
| 2020 | 178 | -45 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1923 USGS Raymond quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1925 USGS Raymond quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Raymond quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Raymond quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Storms near this place
7 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2018 | Tornado (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 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Harvel | - | A small tornado formed northwest of Harvel and tracked northeast into Christian County. Damage was limited to trees and crops. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harvel | - | Winds gusted to 70 mph uprooting several trees. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Harvel | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harvel | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harvel | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Harvel | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Waggoner | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Zanesville | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Shop Creek | 8.2 miles | 10 | |
| Honey Bend | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Farmersville | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Sunrise Hills | 9.6 miles | 12 | |
| Stagecoach Junction | 10.4 miles | 12 |
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 Harvel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2536947 | 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 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.






