BlockSaint Jacob, Illinois
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in St. Jacob Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62281. The Survey maps it on the Saint Jacob quadrangle. 1,358 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 515 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSaint Jacob grew from 1,098 to 1,358 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 | 1,098 | |
| 2020 | 1,358 | +260 (+24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1907 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS St. Jacob quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS St. Jacob quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS St. Jacob quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,222 words on this townshipHistory of Madison County, Illinois ... With Biographical Sketches .., published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on St. Jacob Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on St. Jacob Township - 2,222 words.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marine | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Highland | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Saint Morgan | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Troy | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Kuhn Station | 7.4 miles | 17 | |
| Formosa Junction | 8.5 miles | 16 | |
| Troy Junction | 8.6 miles | 16 | |
| Wilson Heights | 8.8 miles | 16 |
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 Saint Jacob | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671923 | 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 417324. 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.