Hutsonville, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hutsonville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62433. It stands on Hutson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hutsonville quadrangle. 478 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Hutsonville within Crawford County

Population over time

2 figures

Hutsonville fell from 554 to 478 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	554
2020	478	-76 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Hutsonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Hutsonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

546 words on this township

ILLINOIS HISTORICAL CRAWFORD COUNTY, published 1909 names this settlement in its chapter on Hutsonville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

This township, one of the most productive farming divisions of Crawford County, lies along. its eastern boundary of the county, with Clark County on the north, Lamotte and Robinson Townships on the south, the Wabash. River on the east, and Licking Township to the west. The Wabash furnishes its drainage, mainly through Raccoon and Hutson Creeks, and a portion of its area is liable to periodical overflows. Back from the Wabash the surface is somewhat undulating, varied by stretches of open prairie and patches of timber. Black walnut, oak, sugar maple, white walnut, elm, cottonwood, sycamore, buckeye, hackberry, pecan, hickory, etc., constituted the original timber growth. Its industries are mostly agricultural, and some of the farms are quite extensive, the only detriment to profitable soil-tilling being from the hazard of inundation in the depressed areas within its borders. The first white settlers in what is now Hutsonville Township, of which there is any reliable record, were the members of the Hutson family, all of whom, except its head, were massacred by the Indians during the War of 1812. The mother and four children fell victims to a savage onslaught on their log cabin outside of the fort. during the absence of the father, who was afterwards killed in a skirmish with another band of redskins. Hutson had refused to remove his family to the stockade where most of the pioneers had taken refuge.

Passage source: ILLINOIS HISTORICAL CRAWFORD COUNTY, published 1909.

Lindley, Malin Voorhees and Aaron Bell were among the notable arrivals between 1818 and 1821, the first two coming from New Jersey and the last from Virginia, making the journey in a three-horse wagon. In 1826 came Nathan Musgrave, a North Carolina Quaker, together with Mrs. Zylpha Cox, a widow, and her son William, John R. Hurst, Benjamin Dunn, A. B. Raines, Joseph Green and James Boswell. William, Cox was the first man to open a store in Hutsonvile. John R. Hurst and his faithful wife continued to live until sometime in the '80s. The Gyers, a Quaker family from North Carolina, settled near what is now Hutsonville about the year 1826, the father. Aaron Gyer, dying in 1840, and another early settler was Bryant Cox, who arrived from the same State on June 1, 1881. All were men of sturdy habits and resolute character, anl lived arduous lives, confronting the perils of the wilderness, which abounded in wild beasts, clearing spaces for habitations and tillage and, in course of time, the children recited their lessons to the subscription teacher.

Passage source: ILLINOIS HISTORICAL CRAWFORD COUNTY, published 1909.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Hutsonville Township.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hutsonville: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Abram and Hawkins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crawford S & G East Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crawford S & G South Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Graysville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lawrence Gravel #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Turner Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hutsonville in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hutsonville	$75,000	Numerous tree limbs were blown down across Hutsonville. In addition...roof, siding, and awning damage was reported to around a dozen homes.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hutsonville	$65,000	Numerous power poles were snapped about 3 miles northwest of Hutsonville.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hutsonville	$25,000	Numerous trees were blown down in Hutsonville.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Hutsonville	$12,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down between Hutsonville and Robinson.
September 2009	Flash Flood	Hutsonville	-	Rainfall amounts of 4.00 to 5.00 inches in eastern Crawford County resulted in the flooding of numerous roads. Illinois Route 33 between Palestine and Heathsville was inundated with flowing water and impassible in spots.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hutsonville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down over a dozen trees three miles north of Hutsonville. No injuries were reported.
March 2012	Hail	Hutsonville	-	no account filed
April 2011	Hail	Hutsonville	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Hutsonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Trimble	3.5 miles	14
West York	4.4 miles	14
Gordon	7.2 miles	14
Palestine	7.7 miles	20
Porterville	7.8 miles	14
Robinson	8.4 miles	14
Annapolis	8.8 miles	14
Duncanville	10.9 miles	13

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 Hutsonville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2554041	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 410735. 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.

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.