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Hillsdale, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Canoe Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61257. The Survey maps it on the Hillsdale quadrangle. 417 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Hillsdale within Rock Island County

Population over time

2 figures

Hillsdale fell from 523 to 417 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
2010523
2020417-106 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

19 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Hillsdale between 2015 and 2020, burning about 307 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-152
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-099 DITCH FIRE
11 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17-094
5 April 2020Debris and open burning19 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-056
30 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-066
27 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-063
24 April 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCONT BURN DITCHES
24 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCONT BURN SET ASIDE GROUND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rock Island County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsdale in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2017: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2017Funnel CloudHillsdale-The public reported a funnel cloud 5 miles east of Port Byron.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHillsdale-The public reported a 12 inch diameter tree was knocked down. The report was relayed by local Broadcast Media via Twitter.
August 2011Heavy RainHillsdale-Storm total rainfall from this mornings thunderstorms.
April 2010HailHillsdale-Quarter sized to just under golf ball sized hail fell about 6 miles west southwest of Erie, IL at 544 am April 6.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Joslin4.7 miles14
Osborn8.2 miles23
Port Byron8.6 miles23
Cordova9.0 miles21
Rustic Acres9.2 miles23
Rapids City9.3 miles23
Cedar Brook11.3 miles23
Barstow11.8 miles23

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 HillsdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671683The 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 410292. 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.