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Hurst, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Blairsville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62949. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Soto quadrangle. 764 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Hurst within Williamson County

Population over time

2 figures

Hurst fell from 795 to 764 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
2010795
2020764-31 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

21 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hurst between 2010 and 2013, burning about 34 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning2

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
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10163
5 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10077
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13058
15 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10093
7 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10053
28 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWRIGHT
8 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10341
10 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10346

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurst in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
March 2020HailHurst-Quarter-size hail fell in the Hurst and Colp areas.
July 2016FloodHurst-Highway 149 was under a few inches of water along the Franklin County line. In Marion, a portion of Illinois Route 37 was underwater.
July 2009Heavy RainHurst-Heavy rainfall of 2.60 inches was reported in about five hours at Hurst. Elsewhere in the county, there was street flooding and even some road closures.
May 2011Funnel CloudHurst-no account filed
May 2009HailHurst-no account filed
May 2002HailHurst-no account filed
June 1997HailHurst-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Bush0.9 miles18
Blairsville1.8 miles18
Clifford3.5 miles18
Cambria3.8 miles18
Colp3.8 miles18
Fredonia4.5 miles18
Fredonia (historical)4.7 miles18
Dewmaine5.0 miles18

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 HurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575309The 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 410723. 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.

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.