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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.

Hoffman within Clinton County

Population over time

2 figures

Hoffman 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.

YearPeople Change
2010508
2020439-69 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

7 since 2008

Regional 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
25 June 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHUEY
19 April 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBELRENS
3 November 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesEMRY
3 November 2008Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHACKER
7 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBRINKMANN
10 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKNOLHOFF
1 October 2017Debris and open burning25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2017-0078

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hoffman DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Thunderstorm WindHoffman$75,000no account filed
May 1995Thunderstorm WindHoffman$3,400Minor structural damage was reported to some homes.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindHoffman$500Several large trees were blown down or damaged.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindHoffman-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees just south of Hoffman.
June 2007Flash FloodHoffman-Local law enforcement reported Highway 161 flooded in several locations from Posey to Centralia.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHoffman-Local law enforcement reported some trees down east of Hoffman.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHoffman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Huey4.6 miles10
Posey4.7 miles10
Ferrin5.0 miles12
Shattuc6.1 miles12
Wamac6.9 miles12
Royal Lake Resort7.1 miles10
Carlyle7.5 miles10
Beckemeyer10.1 miles10

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 HoffmanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2313976The 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.