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.
Population over time
2 figuresPapineau 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 171 | |
| 2020 | 133 | -38 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1935 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Beaverville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2013Regional 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 use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13-00035 |
| 14 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13-00024 |
| 27 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-00027 |
| 3 October 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 130-400 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Illinois Pit & Mill | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2018 | Flood | Papineau | $1,500,000 | Major 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Papineau | $40,000 | A 1.5 car garage was destroyed, a truck was picked up and doors of a house were blown off their hinges. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Papineau | $10,000 | Trees and tree limbs were blown down. One tree was blown onto the roof of a house. Damage was reported to other houses. |
| May 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Papineau | $5,000 | A tornado damaged barns and tree limbs between Papineau and Martinton. Siding was ripped off a home. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Papineau | - | A private weather station measured a wind gust to 66 mph. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Papineau | - | Area creeks over their banks including Langan Creek near the mouth to the Iroquois River. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Papineau | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (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 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Papineau | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Papineau | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Papineau | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaverville | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Martinton | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| North Hooper | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Hooper | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Pittwood | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Freedville | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Donovan | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| L'Erable | 8.3 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 Papineau | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2319787 | 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 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.







