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Hollowayville, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Selby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61356. The Survey maps it on the Depue quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Hollowayville within Bureau County

Population over time

2 figures

Hollowayville fell from 84 to 36 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
201084
202036-48 (-57%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hollowayville between 2014 and 2015, burning about 212 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3

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
10 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000049
17 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000065
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000051
5 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000044
31 March 2014Debris and open burning200 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000020
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000032
20 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000028

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bureau County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Hollowayville: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Depue Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1973
New Jersey Zinc Depue PlantZinc, LeadPast Producer
Chiado Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Depue White City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dieci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gross PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Obcrhaus Pit & Portable MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Seaton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yucus Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bureau County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollowayville in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 hail. 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
March 2026HailHollowayville-The NWS office in Chicago relayed a report of hail ranging from half an inch to quarter sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Bureau 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
Seatonville1.1 miles13
Ottville2.3 miles13
Depue2.9 miles13
Marquette3.0 miles13
Coal Hollow3.5 miles13
Ladd4.3 miles19
Hicks Corners4.9 miles19
Malden5.6 miles13

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 HollowayvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q581430The 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 410403. 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.