Raleigh, Illinois
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Raleigh Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62977. The Survey maps it on the Galatia quadrangle. 284 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 410 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRaleigh fell from 350 to 284 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 | 350 | |
| 2020 | 284 | -66 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 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.
- 1908 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Raleigh in 2009, burning about 1,188 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | GALATIA4 |
| 9 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | AMERICAN |
| 7 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | GALATIA2 |
| 7 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MOORE |
| 5 March 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,000 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MASSEY |
| 5 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 acres | Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge | RALEIGH |
| 5 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | TATE |
| 4 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | COTTON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raleigh in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raleigh | $75,000 | Trees and power lines were down. Some roof damage occurred. Power was out. The area of damage was mainly near and north of Harrisburg. |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raleigh | $20,000 | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raleigh | $8,000 | About 20 percent of the roof decking was removed from a large barn. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raleigh | $7,000 | Trees were down around Raleigh. Further east, the town of Eldorado was heavily impacted. Lots of trees were down around Eldorado, including several trees and large limbs on houses. One tree fell through the roof of a residence. A tree was down on a trailer. Power lines were down. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Raleigh | - | The main street in Raleigh was flooded. The automated station at the nearby airport measured 3.23 inches. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Raleigh | - | Quarter-size hail fell across portions of northern Saline County. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Raleigh | - | Trees and power lines were blown down around town. |
| April 1996 | Hail | Raleigh | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wasson | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Galatia | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Beulah Heights | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Muddy | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Tison | 4.4 miles | 19 | |
| Long Branch | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Eldorado | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Saline City | 5.1 miles | 17 |
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 Raleigh | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672047 | 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 416357. 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.











