Sandoval, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sandoval Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62882. The Survey maps it on the Centralia East quadrangle. 1,157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 505 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSandoval fell from 1,274 to 1,157 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 | 1,274 | |
| 2020 | 1,157 | -117 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1914 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1935 USGS Centralia quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Centralia East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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 Sandoval: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jolliff Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandoval in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 16 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | 1 hurt, $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | $200 | Large trees were blown down along Highway 51. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped the top off of a power pole in town. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs and several trees in Sandoval and Centralia. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees and numerous tree limbs between Sandoval and Salem. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees, numerous tree limbs and power lines. In Sandoval, a power pole was blown over onto a house causing moderate damage. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Sandoval | - | Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Several roads in the northern part of the county were flooded for a few hours. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | Several large tree limbs and power lines were blown down between Sandoval and Centralia. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | Several large trees were blown down as well as a couple of power lines. One mile south of Sandoval, trees and power lines were blocking Old Highway 51. In Salem, a couple of the trees fell onto homes causing minor to moderate damage and a couple of power poles were blown down as well. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Sandoval | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | no account filed |
| February 1999 | Hail | Sandoval | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandoval | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junction City | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Odin | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Fairman | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Central City | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Selmaville | 6.3 miles | 11 | |
| Centralia | 6.3 miles | 12 | |
| Tonti | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hubbard Woods | 8.5 miles | 13 |
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 Sandoval | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2560139 | 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 417975. 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.





