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Orangeville, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Oneco Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61060. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orangeville quadrangle. 766 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Orangeville within Stephenson County

On record in Orangeville

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 6 records

Population over time

3 figures

Orangeville grew from 751 to 766 between 2000 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
2000751
2010793+42 (+6%)
2020766-27 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

14,005 words on this township

The History of Stephenson County, Illinois : Containing ... Biographical Sketches ... War Record ... Statistics ... Portraits of Early Settlers ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, &c. .., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Oneco Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

School was taught in sight of the village as early as 1843. In 1851, a brick building was erected on Denio's Addition, east of the post office, which was occupied until the completion of the present structure, on the Orangeville road. This was accomplished in 1876, at a cost of $2,000 ; at present, one teacher is employed, who furnishes education and the attendant concomitants to an average daily attendance of sixty-five pupils. The annual expenses incident to maintaining the school are stated at $500.

Passage source: The History of Stephenson County, Illinois : Containing ... Biographical Sketches ... War Record ... Statistics ... Portraits of Early Settlers ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, &c. .., published 1880.

JOHN W. BArHOARDNER, with Deal & Swartz, Orangeville ; born in Stephenson Co., 111., Nov. 27 ; he went to Western College, at Western, Lynn Co., Iowa, took a classical course, and graduated in 1878; then he went into business there, but closed out and came to Orangeville, and went in with Deal & Co., general merchandise, and has been here since. In 1876, Aug. 17, he married Miss Frances Owen, of Pennsylvania, who was born in April, 1854 ; their child is named Katie C. Mr. Baumgardner is now studying for the United Brethren ministry ; his father died in 1855 ; his mother, Catharine, while a widow living at Buckeye Center, married Martin Bender, who died in 1876, in the fall ; she is now living with^er sister on the old estate.

Passage source: The History of Stephenson County, Illinois : Containing ... Biographical Sketches ... War Record ... Statistics ... Portraits of Early Settlers ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, &c. .., published 1880.

B. P. BEIiKNAP, farmer, Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Orangeville ; born in Vermont, Dec. 24, 1811. In 1836, he was married to Miss Deborah Beebe, of Vermont ; moved to Albany, N. Y., and went into the coal business; in 1839, he started West, and walked from Milwaukee to Monroe, Wis., and then to Gratiot; his wife came in 1841 ; they stopped with the Brewster family on Sec. 25, then moved on the farm where they now reside, consisting of 140 acres, and, with the exception of six years in Monroe, Wis., have been here since. Mr. Belknap taught the first school in Oneco Township, at Aaron Denio's house, in 1840. The children are Mary (now Mrs. Everett), Lattig (deceased), Hannah (now Mrs. Mulks), Corwin (who has served in the 46th I. V. I. Co. A), F. C, Edwin C, Lillie M., Edwin (deceased) and Laura (deceased). Mr. Belknap has been Constable, Coroner and Commissioner of Highways.

Passage source: The History of Stephenson County, Illinois : Containing ... Biographical Sketches ... War Record ... Statistics ... Portraits of Early Settlers ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, &c. .., published 1880.

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 Oneco Township - it names this place 58 more 58 times.

Fires near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Orangeville in 2018, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning1

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
11 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources61

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephenson County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Orangeville: 6 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. 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
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
J. Wagner QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Monte QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stephenson County

Storms near this place

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orangeville in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindOrangeville1 hurt, $40,000Severe thunderstorm winds rolled a mobile home trailer over and destroyed it. The occupant of the trailer suffered 2 dislocated shoulders, cuts, and abrasions.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOrangeville$5,000Trees down
August 2005Thunderstorm WindOrangeville$5,000Power lines down
June 2023Thunderstorm WindOrangeville-County dispatch reported a few trees blown down north of Freeport through Orangeville.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindOrangeville-Law enforcement reported a tree down on Rock Grove Road. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOrangeville-A trained spotter reported 8 to 12 inch diameter based on a photo shared on social media. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindOrangeville-Power poles blown down near Orangeville.
August 2018Funnel CloudOrangeville-A public report of a funnel cloud. A photo of the funnel cloud was relayed by local broadcast media.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindOrangeville-An amateur radio operator reported winds estimated up to 70 mph with tree branches blowing across the road.
June 2011HailOrangeville-Quarter sized hail fell in Orangeville, IL at 932 pm CDT June 8.
June 2008HailOrangeville-Nickel-sized hail fell near Orangeville, IL at 2:30 pm June 20.
June 2008HailOrangeville-Golf ball-sized hail fell in Orangeville, IL around 2:30 pm June 20. This report was relayed by WREX-TV in Rockford.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindOrangeville-60 mph thunderstorm wind gust estimated by trained spotter.
July 1999LightningOrangeville-A NWS spotter reported trees downed by lightning in Orangeville.
April 2020HailOrangeville-no account filed
April 2013HailOrangeville-no account filed
May 2000HailOrangeville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stephenson 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
Oneco1.7 miles13
Buckhorn Corners3.0 miles13
Buena Vista3.5 miles13
Afolkey4.4 miles13
McConnell5.2 miles13
Red Oak5.5 miles13
Cedarville6.4 miles13
Rock Grove7.0 miles13

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 OrangevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671866The 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 415157. 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.