Nashville, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nashville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62263. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle. 3,105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 472 feet above sea level.
Research this city
On record in Nashville
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
Louisville and Nashville Depotlisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresNashville fell from 3,258 to 3,105 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 | 3,258 | |
| 2020 | 3,105 | -153 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1931 USGS Hoyleton quadrangle1:48000
- 1932 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1936 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
22,407 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Nashville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Nashville Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nashville: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covington Quarry #3 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Nashville City Eng. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Washington Co. Highway Department | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
50 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nashville in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 26 hail, 22 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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 2012 | Lightning | Nashville | 1 killed | A 51 year old man was killed by a lightning strike when he stepped out of his front door onto the porch. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | $50,000 | Several homes and barns were damaged three to nine miles south of Nashville with power lines and trees also blown down. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | $300 | Wind gusts to 60 mph knocked down trees and power lines. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | $200 | Several large trees and limbs were knocked down. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Nashville | - | Half dollar sized hail was measured with a ruler by the emergency manager in Nashville. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree branches. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds caused moderate roof damage to Nashville High School. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down several power lines on the north side of town. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs around town. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees around town. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a utility shed, ripped some shingles off the roof of a house, and knocked over a section of fencing. Also, several trees were blown down. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines around Nashville. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees as well as numerous tree limbs. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm winds caused minor roof damage to Nashville High School on the south side of town. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Nashville | - | A storm spotter reported 3/4 inch hail in Nashville. |
| March 2004 | Hail | Nashville | - | A cooperative observer reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Nashville | - | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Nashville | - | The County Sheriff Department reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Nashville | - | Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Nashville | - | The Illinois State Police reported 3/4 inch hail north of Nashville. |
| April 2000 | Hail | Nashville | - | Off duty NWS personnel reported 1 1/4 inch hail near Nashville. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees in Nashville. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Nashville | - | 3/4 inch hail was reported soouthwest of Nashville. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Nashville | - | Severe storm spotters reported a brief tornado in open country. There was no damage. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Nashville | - | Reported by the county sheriff's department and SKYWARN spotters. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Nashville | - | Reported by the county sheriff's department and SKYWARN spotters. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| January 2012 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Nashville | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Nashville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kempside | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Beaucoup | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Cordes | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Huegely | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Posen | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Addieville | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| New Minden | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Plum Hill | 6.9 miles | 10 |
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 Nashville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q575507 | 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 414290. 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.






