Hopewell, Illinois
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Steuben Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61565. It lies near Rattlesnake Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Chillicothe quadrangle. 421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 486 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHopewell grew from 410 to 421 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 | 410 | |
| 2020 | 421 | +11 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1893 USGS Metamora quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1937 USGS Metamora quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Metamora quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Chillicothe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hopewell in 2012, burning about 10 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/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | WEIGARD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Hopewell: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmington Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Chillicothe Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Chillicothe Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lacon Plant & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| M. Wilson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Riverside Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Weirs Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparland | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Lacon | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Wilbern | 7.6 miles | 18 | |
| Lawn Ridge | 9.1 miles | 21 | |
| Henry | 10.2 miles | 17 | |
| Saratoga Center | 11.3 miles | 11 | |
| Camp Grove | 11.4 miles | 12 | |
| La Rose | 11.8 miles | 11 |
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 Hopewell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2432141 | 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 1669474. 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.









