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Hoyleton, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hoyleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62803. The Survey maps it on the Hoyleton quadrangle. 520 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 518 feet above sea level.

Hoyleton within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Hoyleton fell from 531 to 520 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
2010531
2020520-11 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoyleton in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
August 2014LightningHoyleton$1,000,000Lightning struck a church in Hoyleton, Illinois at approximately midnight. The fire smoldered in the rafters for several hours before erupting into flames. The fire department was not called til around 2 am. Most of the damage was confined to the attic and bell tower, rest of the building sustained major water damage. No one was in building at the time and no injuries were reported. The building is considered a total loss.
April 2000HailHoyleton$200,000no account filed
April 1998Tornado (F1)Hoyleton$20,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHoyleton$10,000Power lines were knocked over in Hoyleton. The fire chief reported trees down and the entire town without power.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-Thunderstorm winds damaged 2 grain silos and a handful of other farm buildings.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-A microburst hit a business located in a pole barn on the southeast side of Hoyleton, destroying it. Debris, mainly metal roofing pieces where thrown onto nearby houses causing minor to moderate damage. Several trees, tree limbs, power poles and power lines in the area were blown down as well.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-Thunderstorm winds blew down a couple of ham radio antennas.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-Downburst winds extending from the Kaskaskia River northwest of Hoyleton to Hoyleton caused widespread crop and tree damage. Also, several large trees fell onto homes in Hoyleton causing minor to moderate roof damage.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-The County Sheriff Department reported a few trees and large tree limbs down in Hoyleton. A couple of streets were blocked by the debris.
July 2004HailHoyleton-The County Sheriff reported 3/4 inch hail in Hoyleton.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-no account filed
April 2012HailHoyleton-no account filed
September 2012HailHoyleton-no account filed
April 2012HailHoyleton-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-no account filed
September 2006HailHoyleton-no account filed
November 2005Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-no account filed
November 2004Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-no account filed
November 2004Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindHoyleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Alda2.5 miles9
Huegely3.4 miles12
Noltings5.1 miles9
New Minden5.1 miles12
Irvington5.9 miles9
Beaucoup6.4 miles12
Richview6.6 miles9
Pyramid7.8 miles9

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 HoyletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672015The 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 410632. 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.