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Oak Grove, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Bowling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61264. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle. 476 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Oak Grove within Rock Island County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak Grove grew from 396 to 476 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
2010396
2020476+80 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

35 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Oak Grove between 2008 and 2011, burning about 4 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined19
Smoking6
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2

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
23 September 2009Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesIDNR2
16 September 2009Smokingunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesI280 11
11 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesIDNR
30 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUNION
16 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMM15
11 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesEAST
5 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILAN
31 July 2010Naturalunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILAN3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rock Island County

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 Oak Grove: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Allied Stone Plant #30Stone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Big Island Plant #51 DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
General Pit No. 3 Milan PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Milan Quarry, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Rock Island County

Storms near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Grove in 6 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2003HailOak Grove$500,000no account filed
April 2006HailOak Grove$2,000Nickel to quarter sized hail. Location is in the southwest part of the city of Rock Island northwest of Oak Grove and near Highland Springs Golf Course.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Power pole broken off. Relayed by media. Time estimated from radar data.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Tree blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOak Grove-Wind gusts estimated to be 80 mph were observed 4 miles south of Rock Island, IL at 612 am July 21.
April 2006HailOak Grove-dime size hail

Every storm recorded in Rock Island 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
Coyne Center0.7 miles23
Castle Junction1.3 miles23
Ginger Hill1.9 miles23
Milan2.9 miles23
Fruitland5.1 miles23
Taylor Ridge5.4 miles19
Bridgeway Addition5.6 miles23
Coal Valley5.9 miles14

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 Oak GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2611150The 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 414765. 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.