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Papineau, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Papineau Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60956. The Survey maps it on the Beaverville quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Papineau within Iroquois County

Population over time

2 figures

Papineau fell from 171 to 133 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
2010171
2020133-38 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Papineau between 2013 and 2018, burning about 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2

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
16 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-00035
14 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13-00024
27 April 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-00027
3 October 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources130-400

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iroquois County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Papineau: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Eastern Illinois Pit & MillClayProducer

Every working recorded in Iroquois County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Papineau in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2018FloodPapineau$1,500,000Major flooding occurred along the Iroquois River. The river crested at 26.06 feet at Iroquois on February 22nd, which was the second highest crest on record. Flood stage at Iroquois is 18 feet and major stage is 25 feet. The river crested at 20.59 feet at Chebanse on February 24th, which was also the second highest crest on record. Flood stage at Chebanse is 16 feet and major stage is 20 feet.||In the city of Watseka, over 100 homes suffered some kind of water damage from the flooding. Businesses and ground floor apartments were also flooded. Numerous roads were closed. Some residents had to be rescued by boats. The emergency manager said this flooding was likely the worst the city has seen.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindPapineau$40,000A 1.5 car garage was destroyed, a truck was picked up and doors of a house were blown off their hinges.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPapineau$10,000Trees and tree limbs were blown down. One tree was blown onto the roof of a house. Damage was reported to other houses.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Papineau$5,000A tornado damaged barns and tree limbs between Papineau and Martinton. Siding was ripped off a home.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindPapineau-A private weather station measured a wind gust to 66 mph.
August 2016Flash FloodPapineau-Area creeks over their banks including Langan Creek near the mouth to the Iroquois River.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindPapineau-Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Papineau-A spotter reported that a tornado briefly touched down at a farm just south of Papineau. Tree limbs and power lines were knocked down and a barn was damaged. Debris was scattered over several acres.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindPapineau-no account filed
May 2000HailPapineau-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindPapineau-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iroquois 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
Beaverville3.4 miles12
Martinton3.7 miles12
North Hooper5.9 miles11
Hooper6.3 miles11
Pittwood7.5 miles11
Freedville7.6 miles11
Donovan8.0 miles11
L'Erable8.3 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 PapineauAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2319787The 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 415366. 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.