BlockScottville, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Scottville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62674. The Survey maps it on the Scottville quadrangle. 93 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 651 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresScottville fell from 116 to 93 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 | 116 | |
| 2020 | 93 | -23 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1932 USGS Greenfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Scottville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
573 words on this townshipHistory of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Scottville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Scottville township is located in town 12, range 9. It is bounded on the north by Morgan county, on the east by North Palmyra township, on the south by Barr township, and on the west by Greene county. The surface is undulating and both timber and prairie land is to be found here. It is well drained for Apple, Panther, Turner, Joe's and Big Nigger creeks all flow through the township.
Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.
A Baptist society was formed in the south part of the township by Rev. Stephen Coonrod, a Baptist minister, who preached the first sermon in the township, holding services for some time in the homes of the settlers. Eventually ministers* of the Methodist, Christian and Presbyterian denominations came into the township, holding services either in private homes or in a schoolhouse until churches could be erected. The first church edifice was erected by the Christian denomination in Scottville.
Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.
Scottville is another of the villages of the county that has gone backward. In 1890 it had 363 people within its limits. At the time of the census in 1900, the population had increased by one and the census of 1910 shows only 301 for that year.
Passage source: History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Scottville Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scottville in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines onto Modesto-Scottville Road. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Scottville | - | Up to 5 inches of rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ike fell onto already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded in the Carlinville, Gillespie, Virden and Mount Olive areas. Route 4 was closed in Carlinville due to the flooding. Three water rescues had to be performed in just an hour as 3 people drove into flooded roadways and became stranded. One driver got out of his car and was swept downstream about a quarter of a mile before grabbing onto a tree till he was rescued. Numerous culverts were washed out countywide. In Gillespie, rain soaked soil collapsed the basement wall and foundation of a home on South Macoupin Street. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Scottville | - | The County Sheriff Department reported golfball size hail. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Scottville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Scottville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Scottville | - | 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.
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 Scottville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671964 | 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 418152. 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.
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.