Otterville, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Otter Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62052. It lies near Shiloh Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Otterville quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.
On record in Otterville
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 1 record
Hamilton Primary Schoollisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresOtterville fell from 126 to 87 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 | 126 | |
| 2020 | 87 | -39 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1930 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1933 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Otterville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Otterville in 2011, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 11402004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Otterville in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 7 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otterville | $1,000 | A large tree was blown over onto a road in town. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Otterville | - | Large hail fell in a swath from Otterville to Jerseyville. The largest stones were 2.25 inches in diameter. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Otterville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and numerous tree limbs. Also, a small shed had two pieces of plywood blown off and a metal awning at a local business was blown off and landed next to a van causing minor damage to the vehicle. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Otterville | - | Storm spotters reported golfball size hail. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Otterville | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Otterville | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Otterville | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Otterville | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Otterville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dow | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| McClusky | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Newbern | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Democrat Spring | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| East Newbern | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Grafton | 5.8 miles | 23 | |
| Chautauqua | 6.0 miles | 23 | |
| Jerseyville | 6.1 miles | 12 |
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 Otterville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q577369 | 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 415234. 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.
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.





