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McClure, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1996. It stands in McClure precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62957. It lies near Picayune Island. The Survey maps it on the McClure quadrangle. 256 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

McClure within Alexander County

On record in McClure

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

McClure fell from 402 to 256 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.

YearPeople Change
2010402
2020256-146 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 25 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of McClure between 1996 and 2018, burning about 257 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2006Debris and open burning2.5 acresShawnee National ForestMUD PUPPY
29 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreShawnee National ForestSEXTON CREEK
8 May 2018Arson/incendiarism90 acresShawnee National ForestREIMAN
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism28 acresShawnee National ForestPIGEON
25 April 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreShawnee National ForestGALE
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresShawnee National ForestREIMANN ROAD
8 March 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresShawnee National ForestBEAN RIDGE
6 March 2012Debris and open burning18 acresShawnee National ForestOLD DELTA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Alexander County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of McClure: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown SilicaSilicaPast Producer
Cape Giradeau Sand Co PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dredge # 5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Birk 2a PitDiatomitePast Producer
Birk No. 2 PitDiatomiteProducer
Birk No. 2 PitDiatomiteProducer
Birk No. 2a PitDiatomiteProducer
Moad MinesStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thebes Sandstone DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unknown LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Alexander County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McClure in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1993HailMcClure-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Alexander 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
East Cape Girardeau3.7 miles25
Gale4.8 miles22
Thebes6.9 miles22
Diswood8.3 miles22
Elco8.9 miles24
Tatumville9.1 miles24
Dawleys10.2 miles22
Tamms10.3 miles22

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 McClureAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7999352The 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 413206. 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.