Kilbourne, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Kilbourne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62655. The Survey maps it on the Kilbourne quadrangle. 265 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 493 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKilbourne fell from 302 to 265 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 | 302 | |
| 2020 | 265 | -37 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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 Chandlerville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Chandlerville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Kilbourne quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kilbourne in 2004, burning about 6 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/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Illinois River National Wildlife Refuge | SPOON RIVER 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kilbourne in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kilbourne | $65,000 | Irrigation pivots were flipped and twisted. Numerous trees were blown down and a 50-60 foot tall pine tree was snapped. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kilbourne | $35,000 | Thirty utility poles were blown down on 600 North near Kilbourne. |
| September 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Kilbourne | $20,000 | A tornado touched down 3.5 miles southwest of Kilbourne at 4:45 PM CDT. It then tracked southeastward across East County Road 400N and quickly dissipated 3.4 miles southwest of Kilbourne at 4:46 PM CDT. One home sustained shingle and siding damage and had tree branches blown through a few windows. In addition, numerous power lines were knocked down in the area. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kilbourne | $20,000 | Several trees were uprooted and a few powerlines were knocked down in Kilbourne. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Kilbourne | - | Around 1.50 to 2.25 of rain fell between 0845 and 1000 CST on top of already saturated ground. This produced rapid flash flooding in a small part of southern Mason County. Rural roads in this area were impassable, particularly those near the Logan and Menard County lines. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kilbourne | - | Several trees were blown down on Illinois Route 97 in Kilbourne. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kilbourne | - | Several power poles were blown down just southeast of Kilbourne. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kilbourne | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree in Kilbourne, as well as, numerous tree limbs. No injuries or structural damage were reported. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Kilbourne | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conover | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Peterville | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Long Branch | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| White City | 6.1 miles | 15 | |
| Kelsey | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Matanzas | 7.2 miles | 15 | |
| Bath | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Poplar City | 7.6 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 Kilbourne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2543396 | 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 411459. 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.








