BlockHindsboro, Illinois
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bowdre Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61930. The Survey maps it on the Hindsboro quadrangle. 275 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 648 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHindsboro fell from 313 to 275 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 | 313 | |
| 2020 | 275 | -38 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1936 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1936 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Oakland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Hindsboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Hindsboro quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
850 words on this townshipHistory of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1876 names this settlement in its chapter on Bowdre Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The town or village of Hindsboro is situated in section 6, 14, 10, and was laid out by the railroad company upon the lands of the Hinds Brothers in 1874, the plat covering about sixty-two acres. The railroad here runs about southeast and the plan of the town is in conformitv with it, the principal streets being at right angles and parallel with the line of the road. The place is improving rapidly and has claims as a shipping point which can not be ignored. Here Lodge No. 571, I. O. O. F., was instituted April 12, 1875, tne m'st officers of which
Passage source: History of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1876.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
13 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hindsboro in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hindsboro | - | A large branch was broken off. |
| May 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Hindsboro | - | This tornado crossed from northeastern Coles County into Douglas County northeast of the Antioch Baptist Church at 2:18 PM CDT. It continued northeastward through open fields before dissipating east of Walnut Point State Park at 2:19 PM CDT. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hindsboro | - | A large tree was blown over. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hindsboro | - | A large tree was blown over. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hindsboro | - | A power line was blown down north of Hindsboro. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Hindsboro | - | Several periods of rainfall occurred as a result of the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill. Rainfall totals ranged from 2.00 to 4.00 on already saturated ground in southern Douglas County. Numerous creeks in the south central part of the county flooded out of their banks. Extensive flooding of rural roads from Camargo to Hindsboro to the Coles County line was reported. |
| June 2015 | Flood | Hindsboro | - | Several periods of rainfall occurred as a result of the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill. Rainfall totals ranged from 2.00 to 4.00 on already saturated ground in southern Douglas County. Numerous creeks in the south central part of the county flooded out of their banks. Extensive flooding of rural roads from Camargo to Hindsboro to the Coles County line was reported. The periods of rainfall persisted through all of June 19th and into June 20th. This caused roadways to remain flooded. The flooding subsided by the morning of June 20th. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Hindsboro | - | A second area of thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding in part of Douglas County. Rainfall rates of 1.50 per hour and flash flooding of numerous rural roads were reported in the southeast corner of the county. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hindsboro | - | Several trees and tree limbs were blown down. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Hindsboro | - | A tornado briefly touched down destroying a machine shed 2 miles north of Hindsboro. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Hindsboro | - | A tornado touched down 3 miles northeast of Hindsboro knocking down several power poles and several outbuildings. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Hindsboro | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hindsboro | - | 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.
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 Hindsboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1866062 | 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 410307. 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.
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.