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.
Population over time
2 figuresNew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 319 | |
| 2020 | 350 | +31 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1937 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:48000
- 1937 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | OLIVE1 |
| 22 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HENRY |
| 13 February 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | REZY RD |
| 12 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MANSHOLT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Richards Brick Co. Shale Mine | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Tornado (F1) | New Douglas | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Douglas | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Douglas | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down. |
| March 2012 | Hail | New Douglas | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Douglas | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Douglas | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Douglas | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | New Douglas | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binney | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Livingston | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Williamson | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Alhambra | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Green Castle | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Kaufman | 9.5 miles | 14 | |
| Worden | 9.5 miles | 15 | |
| Grantfork | 9.7 miles | 11 |
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 Douglas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672311 | 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 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.






