Marquette Heights, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Groveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61554. The Survey maps it on the Marquette Heights quadrangle. 2,541 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMarquette Heights fell from 2,824 to 2,541 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 | 2,824 | |
| 2020 | 2,541 | -283 (-10%) |
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 Marquette Heights 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 Marquette Heights quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
5,216 words on this townshipHistory of Tazewell County, Illinois ; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of State Laws, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Groveland Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Groveland Township - 5,216 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Marquette Heights: 2 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peoria Blacktop S & G | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Plant | ||
| Moushon Construction Co. Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pekin Sand | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marquette Heights in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette Heights | - | A three-inch diameter tree was blown down and marble-size fell. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Pekin | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Grove | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Creve Coeur | 2.1 miles | 21 | |
| Wesley | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| East Peoria | 3.5 miles | 21 | |
| Fond du Lac | 3.5 miles | 21 | |
| Towne Oaks | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Groveland | 3.9 miles | 18 |
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 Marquette Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q575894 | 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 413026. 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.









