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.
Population over time
2 figuresOak 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 396 | |
| 2020 | 476 | +80 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 23 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.
- 1912 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1944 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Milan quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000
- 2000 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
35 since 2008Regional 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/undetermined | 19 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | IDNR2 |
| 16 September 2009 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | I280 11 |
| 11 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | IDNR |
| 30 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | UNION |
| 16 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MM15 |
| 11 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | EAST |
| 5 July 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MILAN |
| 31 July 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MILAN3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allied Stone Plant #30 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Big Island Plant #51 Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| General Pit No. 3 Milan Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Milan Quarry, Inc. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2003 | Hail | Oak Grove | $500,000 | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Oak Grove | $2,000 | Nickel 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | Power pole broken off. Relayed by media. Time estimated from radar data. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | Tree blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Grove | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 80 mph were observed 4 miles south of Rock Island, IL at 612 am July 21. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Oak Grove | - | dime size hail |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coyne Center | 0.7 miles | 23 | |
| Castle Junction | 1.3 miles | 23 | |
| Ginger Hill | 1.9 miles | 23 | |
| Milan | 2.9 miles | 23 | |
| Fruitland | 5.1 miles | 23 | |
| Taylor Ridge | 5.4 miles | 19 | |
| Bridgeway Addition | 5.6 miles | 23 | |
| Coal Valley | 5.9 miles | 14 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2611150 | 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 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.












