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New Douglas, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in New Douglas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62074. The Survey maps it on the New Douglas quadrangle. 350 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

New Douglas within Madison County

Population over time

2 figures

New Douglas grew from 319 to 350 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
2010319
2020350+31 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of New Douglas between 2010 and 2016, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesOLIVE1
22 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesHENRY
13 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesREZY RD
12 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMANSHOLT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Douglas: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Richards Brick Co. Shale MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Douglas in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 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
April 1999Tornado (F1)New Douglas1 hurtno account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Douglas-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Douglas-Several large tree limbs were blown down.
March 2012HailNew Douglas-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Douglas-no account filed
April 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Douglas-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Douglas-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)New Douglas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Binney3.5 miles11
Livingston5.2 miles15
Williamson5.3 miles15
Alhambra6.6 miles11
Green Castle7.0 miles11
Kaufman9.5 miles14
Worden9.5 miles15
Grantfork9.7 miles11

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 New DouglasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672311The 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 414394. 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.