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Phillipstown, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Phillips Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62827. The Survey maps it on the Crossville quadrangle. 34 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Phillipstown within White County

Population over time

2 figures

Phillipstown fell from 44 to 34 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
201044
202034-10 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Phillipstown: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Carmi Dredge and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Diamond Dredge and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Maunie Plant/Dredge & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phillipstown in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 5 flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
May 2011FloodPhillipstown$30,000no account filed
March 2021FloodPhillipstown-Minor flooding occurred on the Wabash River. Low-lying farmland in the flood plain was inundated. The farmland was mainly still unplanted.
February 2019FloodPhillipstown-Moderate flooding occurred on the Wabash River. At the New Harmony, IN river gage, the river crested at 20.41 feet on the 16th. Flood stage is 15 feet. Considerable flooding of low ground occurred on the Illinois side of the river. Most of the low ground was dormant agricultural fields. Some county roads were flooded.
March 2018FloodPhillipstown-Moderate flooding continued along the Wabash River from late February. At the New Harmony, IN river gage, the river crested at 21.21 feet on March 4th. Flood stage there is 15 feet. This crest was about one-half foot lower than the flood of May, 2017. The river was three miles wide at Interstate 64. Low farmland was flooded almost to the eastern edge of Phillipstown. Extensive flooding of agricultural land occurred. The land was mostly unplanted, so crop damage was slight. A large number of rural county roads were impacted.
January 2016FloodPhillipstown-Moderate flooding of the Wabash River continued into January. At the New Harmony, Indiana river gage, the river crested at 20.69 feet on the 7th. Flood stage there is 15 feet. There was considerable flooding of low-lying woods and fields near the river. A few secondary roads were flooded.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Phillipstown-The weak tornado moved northeast across sparsely populated bottomland of the Wabash River. Numerous small tree limbs and isolated large branches were blown down. The parent supercell thunderstorm continued northeast, producing other weak tornadoes in southwest Indiana.
March 2024HailPhillipstown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Garnerville2.5 miles11
Crossville2.7 miles9
Harper (historical)3.1 miles9
Calvin4.6 miles9
Brownsport (historical)6.0 miles11
Epworth6.7 miles11
Maunie7.4 miles11
Carmi8.1 miles9

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 PhillipstownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2315814The 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 415616. 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.

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.