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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.

Otterville within Jersey County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Otterville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010126
202087-39 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2011

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
2 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources11402004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jersey County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindOtterville$1,000A large tree was blown over onto a road in town.
April 2015HailOtterville-Large hail fell in a swath from Otterville to Jerseyville. The largest stones were 2.25 inches in diameter.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindOtterville-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 2000HailOtterville-Storm spotters reported golfball size hail.
June 2015HailOtterville-no account filed
May 2014HailOtterville-no account filed
April 2011HailOtterville-no account filed
May 2010HailOtterville-no account filed
May 2008HailOtterville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jersey 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
Dow4.0 miles12
McClusky4.2 miles12
Newbern4.4 miles12
Democrat Spring5.1 miles12
East Newbern5.1 miles12
Grafton5.8 miles23
Chautauqua6.0 miles23
Jerseyville6.1 miles12

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 OttervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577369The 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.