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Mulberry Grove, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mulberry Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62262. The Survey maps it on the Mulberry Grove quadrangle. 520 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Mulberry Grove within Bond County

Population over time

2 figures

Mulberry Grove fell from 634 to 520 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
2010634
2020520-114 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Mulberry Grove between 2009 and 2010, burning about 84 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLINKS
1 April 2010Smoking20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWHITE
2 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBROWN
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesROACH
6 November 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesJOHN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bond County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mulberry Grove: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cocaigne PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bond County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mulberry Grove in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove$1,000A 1 foot diameter tree limb was knocked onto the roof of a house in Mulberry Grove.
April 1994HailMulberry Grove$500Golf ball-size hail caused minor damage in the Mulberry Grove area. Reported by ham radio spotters.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs around town.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large oak tree briefly blocking Illinois Route 140.
June 2011Flash FloodMulberry Grove-Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Illinois Route 140 near Greenville.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove-Several power lines were blown down north of Mulberry Grove.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove-Trees were downed along I-70 at the Mulberry Grove exit.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove-Local law enforcement reported large tree limbs down, roof shingles blown off homes, and a truck overturned on I-70.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove-Several large trees were uprooted. Numerous tree limbs were blown down as well.
March 2005HailMulberry Grove-The public reported that 3/4 inch hail fell for about 10 minutes.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMulberry Grove-Thunderstorm wind gusts blew down a tree and power line at the intersection of Second and Tower Streets.
August 2012HailMulberry Grove-no account filed
April 2006HailMulberry Grove-no account filed
June 1999HailMulberry Grove-no account filed
June 1998HailMulberry Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bond 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
Hamburg4.1 miles12
Smithboro4.3 miles13
Pleasant Mound4.4 miles12
Woburn4.7 miles13
Durley5.3 miles13
Hookdale7.2 miles12
Greenville8.0 miles12
Ayers10.1 miles12

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 Mulberry GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2333913The 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 414220. 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.