BlockMapleton, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Hollis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61547. It stands on Little Lamarsh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pekin quadrangle. 261 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 472 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMapleton fell from 270 to 261 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 | 270 | |
| 2020 | 261 | -9 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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.
- 1905 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1927 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Pekin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1996 USGS Pekin quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,426 words on this townshipThe History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a History of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc. .., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Hollis Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
JACOBS PETERS, sawder, P. O. Mapleton, was bom in Pennsylvania. June I, 1823, came to Peoria county in lS58,and settled in Lancaster, Timber township, and, in 1S76, came to Hollis. Married Miss Mary T. Kuley, who was bom in Pennsylvania, July 30, 1826. The fruit of this marriage was nine children, six of whom are living: William, Ulysses, Julia, Mary, Jennie, Hattie. Members of the Catholic Church.
Passage source: The History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a History of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the County, Its Early Settlement, Growth, Development, Resources, Etc., Etc. .., published 1880.
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 Hollis Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mapleton: 2 producers. All of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elzie Hurley Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pekin South Sand | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mapleton in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2016 | Hail | Mapleton | $500,000 | Numerous cars sustained hail damage south of Peoria. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Mapleton | $70,000 | Hail up to 1.50 inches in diameter damaged four cars, and did shingle damage to several houses. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | A tree was blown over. |
| February 2024 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Mapleton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston Mines | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Hollis | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Tuscarora | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Glasford | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Lake Camelot | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Lancaster | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Bartonville | 7.2 miles | 19 | |
| Smithville | 7.4 miles | 16 |
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 Mapleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1829160 | 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 412972. 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.