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Hull, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Kinderhook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62343. The Survey maps it on the Hull quadrangle. 392 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Hull within Pike County

Population over time

2 figures

Hull fell from 461 to 392 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
2010461
2020392-69 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

80 words on this township

With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Kinderhook Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Kinderhook Township - 80 words.

Fires near this place

21 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hull between 2008 and 2019, burning about 248 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/undetermined17
Debris and open burning4

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
17 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources369
10 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources276
1 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources5012015
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources902992
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources203
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources204
27 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources199
1 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources112249

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hull: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barry Plant No. 8, DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Kinderhook Pit No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

15 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hull in 15 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHull-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree and power line damage from Hull to Pittsfield to Milton.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHull-Thunderstorm winds caused a wide swath of damage across Pike County. In Hull, a large tree was blown down across a road in town. Several trees and tree limbs were blown down just south of Pittsfield and several trees were blown down across a road in Baylis. In Griggsville, several power lines were blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHull-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree across Illinois Route 96 just east of Hull.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHull-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees in Hull.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHull-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto Illinois Route 96 about half a mile north of Interstate 72, blocking it for awhile.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindHull-Storm spotters reported some trees blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHull-Several trees, large tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Hull.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHull-The County Sheriff reported trees and power lines down east of Hull.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHull-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed several trees in the Hull area.
June 2023HailHull-no account filed
May 2022HailHull-no account filed
June 2019HailHull-no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindHull-no account filed
September 2010HailHull-no account filed
March 2006HailHull-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Kinderhook2.9 miles14
Shinn3.0 miles14
Spencer3.1 miles17
Seehorn4.4 miles19
Aladdin6.2 miles17
Munger7.0 miles19
Shepherd7.4 miles17
New Canton7.6 miles14

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 HullAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2298464The 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 410669. 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.