Paderborn, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Millstadt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62298. The Survey maps it on the Paderborn quadrangle. 35 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 495 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPaderborn fell from 43 to 35 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 | 43 | |
| 2020 | 35 | -8 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1910 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500
- 1913 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paderborn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Waterloo quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Festus quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Paderborn quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
11,773 words on this townshipHistory of St. Clair County, Illinois. With Illustrations ... and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Millstadt Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Millstadt Township - 11,773 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Paderborn in 2011, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | RITTER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Paderborn: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
8 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paderborn in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2001 | Lightning | Paderborn | 1 killed | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Paderborn | - | The tornado crossed into St. Clair County about 0.4 of a mile northwest of Hecker. The tornado intensified as it crossed Illinois Route 159. In this area, it destroyed a large barn, caused minor roof damage to a house and snapped off a number of trees. It continued to track to the northeast causing sporadic tree damage and minor roof damage to outbuildings before lifting and dissipating on Klein School Road just north of intersection with Illinois Route 156 at 6:59 PM CDT. The tornado was rated EF1 in St. Clair County with a max wind speed of 100 mph. The path length was 3.66 miles with a max path width of 100 yards. Overall, the tornado was rated EF1 with a max wind speed of 100 mph. The total path length was 19.57 miles with a max path width of 100 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paderborn | - | A power pole was snapped off along Illinois Route 159 to the north of the tornado track. Also, the thunderstorm winds caused minor roof damage to a house. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paderborn | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power poles along Knab Road. Also, a nearby machine shed was destroyed and another one sustained moderate damage. A number of trees and tree limbs were blown as well. |
| November 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paderborn | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree across Klein Road. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paderborn | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped off a couple of power poles just east of Paderborn. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Paderborn | - | A tornado touched down half a mile northeast of Paderborn in southwestern St. Clair County and moved east southeastward towards the Sportsman Lake Subdivision. Two power poles were snapped on Knab Road while six homes at the lake sustained minor roof damage in which 30 to 40 percent of the shingles were removed. A number of medium to large trees were uprooted or snapped along the damage track in this subdivision. The tornado lifted and dissipated on the far south side of the subdivision near Live Oak Drive. The maximum intensity was EF1, with a maximum estimated wind speed of 100 mph. The maximum width of the tornado was 60 to 80 yards and the total path length was 1.75 miles. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Paderborn | - | An aerial survey conducted by members of the BAMEX (Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment) revealed a small tornado track that crossed into St. Clair County west of Paderborn. The damage occurred in a rural area and was limited to downed trees. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floraville | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Smithton | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Douglas | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Bohleysville | 5.5 miles | 18 | |
| Roachtown | 7.1 miles | 18 | |
| Lementon | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Millstadt | 7.4 miles | 18 | |
| Rodemich | 7.5 miles | 20 |
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 Paderborn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q766695 | 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 426461. 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.










