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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.

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Nashville within Washington County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Nashville 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.

YearPeople Change
20103,258
20203,105-153 (-5%)

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.

In the county-history sources

22,407 words on this township

The 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 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Covington Quarry #3Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Nashville City Eng.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Washington Co. Highway DepartmentStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

50 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012LightningNashville1 killedA 51 year old man was killed by a lightning strike when he stepped out of his front door onto the porch.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindNashville1 hurtno account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindNashville$50,000Several homes and barns were damaged three to nine miles south of Nashville with power lines and trees also blown down.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindNashville$5,000no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindNashville$300Wind gusts to 60 mph knocked down trees and power lines.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindNashville$200Several large trees and limbs were knocked down.
March 2025HailNashville-Half dollar sized hail was measured with a ruler by the emergency manager in Nashville.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree branches.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds caused moderate roof damage to Nashville High School.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several power lines on the north side of town.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs around town.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees around town.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindNashville-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 2014Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines around Nashville.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees as well as numerous tree limbs.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm winds caused minor roof damage to Nashville High School on the south side of town.
March 2005HailNashville-A storm spotter reported 3/4 inch hail in Nashville.
March 2004HailNashville-A cooperative observer reported 3/4 inch hail.
May 2004HailNashville-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
April 2002HailNashville-The County Sheriff Department reported 3/4 inch hail.
August 2002HailNashville-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
August 2001HailNashville-The Illinois State Police reported 3/4 inch hail north of Nashville.
April 2000HailNashville-Off duty NWS personnel reported 1 1/4 inch hail near Nashville.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindNashville-Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some trees in Nashville.
April 1998HailNashville-3/4 inch hail was reported soouthwest of Nashville.
April 1998Tornado (F0)Nashville-Severe storm spotters reported a brief tornado in open country. There was no damage.
May 1995HailNashville-Reported by the county sheriff's department and SKYWARN spotters.
May 1995HailNashville-Reported by the county sheriff's department and SKYWARN spotters.
May 2025HailNashville-no account filed
March 2012HailNashville-no account filed
January 2012HailNashville-no account filed
June 2009HailNashville-no account filed
June 2008HailNashville-no account filed
May 2006HailNashville-no account filed
May 2006HailNashville-no account filed
May 2006HailNashville-no account filed
September 2006HailNashville-no account filed
July 2004HailNashville-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindNashville-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNashville-no account filed
August 2001HailNashville-no account filed
August 2001HailNashville-no account filed
August 2001HailNashville-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindNashville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindNashville-no account filed
April 1996HailNashville-no account filed
March 1996HailNashville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Kempside3.0 miles13
Beaucoup4.7 miles12
Cordes5.2 miles13
Huegely5.4 miles12
Posen6.3 miles12
Addieville6.7 miles12
New Minden6.8 miles12
Plum Hill6.9 miles10

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 NashvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575507The 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.