Kampsville, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Crater precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62053. It lies in Kampsville Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Kampsville quadrangle. 310 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in Kampsville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
GOLDENRODNational Historic Landmark
Kamp Storelisted 1994
Population over time
2 figuresKampsville fell from 328 to 310 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 | 328 | |
| 2020 | 310 | -18 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1930 USGS Pearl quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Pearl quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Kampsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kampsville between 2018 and 2019, burning about 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-006 |
| 11 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | JEFFERY RUYLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kampsville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eldred Stone Co. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kampsville in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Flood | Kampsville | $5,000 | The Illinois River hit major flood levels all along the border of Calhoun County. The river crested at Hardin, IL on April 26th at 36.34 feet but remained over flood stage into May.|Agricultural damage was the only know damage. Damage estimates were not available. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kampsville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Flood | Kampsville | $2,000 | The Illinois River along the border of Calhoun County remained at major flood levels in early May, dropped below major levels for a while, then rose to major levels again at the end of May. Damage was limited to some closed roads and flooded farmland. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kampsville | - | Several trees that were a couple of feet in diameter were blown over Bee Creek Road about 7 miles north of Kampsville. |
| March 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Kampsville | - | A long track tornado that eventually hit Springfield, IL started as a small tornado over northern Calhoun County near the intersection of Hillcrest and Belleview Road on Farmers Ridge, or about 5 miles northwest of Kampsville. The tornado damaged a machine shed, one other smaller outbuilding and downed a few large trees. The tornado also caused damage along Highway 100 near the Illinois River. A barn was damaged and a number of large trees downed. The damage was rated F0. The tornado then crossed into extreme southeast Pike County. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kampsville | - | The Sheriff Department reported a tree down blocking Highway 100. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Kampsville | - | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Kampsville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Kampsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1723400 | 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 411293. 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.





