Hoffman, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62801. It stands on Prairie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carlyle quadrangle. 439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 456 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHoffman fell from 508 to 439 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 | 508 | |
| 2020 | 439 | -69 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1910 USGS Carlyle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Carlyle quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Carlyle quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hoffman between 2008 and 2017, burning about 48 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HUEY |
| 19 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BELRENS |
| 3 November 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | EMRY |
| 3 November 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HACKER |
| 7 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BRINKMANN |
| 10 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | KNOLHOFF |
| 1 October 2017 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2017-0078 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hoffman: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoffman Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoffman in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2012: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoffman | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoffman | $3,400 | Minor structural damage was reported to some homes. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoffman | $500 | Several large trees were blown down or damaged. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoffman | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees just south of Hoffman. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Hoffman | - | Local law enforcement reported Highway 161 flooded in several locations from Posey to Centralia. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoffman | - | Local law enforcement reported some trees down east of Hoffman. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoffman | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huey | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Posey | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Ferrin | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Shattuc | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Wamac | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Royal Lake Resort | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Carlyle | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Beckemeyer | 10.1 miles | 10 |
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 Hoffman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2313976 | 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 410338. 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.





