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Seatonville, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61359. The Survey maps it on the Depue quadrangle. 321 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Seatonville within Bureau County

Population over time

2 figures

Seatonville grew from 314 to 321 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
2010314
2020321+7 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

1,560 words on this township

Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Hall Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The township of Hall in 1880 had a population of 1058. Twenty years later, in 1900, it had a population of 9844. and it has greatly increased since then. Its principal industry is mining. \Mthin the boundaries of Hall township may be found the city of Spring Yalle}', corporations of Ladd. Marquette, Dalzell, Seatonville and Cherry. All of these towns are given over to coal mining. \'ast shipments of coal are sent to different parts of the country. The facilities for shipping are very superior, as it has several lines of railroad Ijcsides having a frontage on the Illinois river. The population embraces nearly every^ nationality on the globe. Southern Europe is largely represented. The first settler was Eeason Hall, who located on section 34 in 1828. In 1833 Henry J. Miller built on section 33 and William Miller on section 36. The same year Edward Hall settled on section 39 and William Swan on section 19. J. Whitehead. Eobert Scott, A. Wixani, Alexander Holbrook and Martin Tompkins were among the early arrivals. Daniel Webster early owned a tract of land in Hall township, which was afterward owned by his son. Calvin Combs, Samuel J. Williams and Moses Tichner came previous to 1840. One of the iinest geological collections in the state is that of James Murray, who was born in Scotland in 1820 but has lived in Hall for many years. This collection has been gathered with great care and has attracted the attention of the geologists from all parts of the country. The population in 1900 was, including Spring Valley, Ladd and Seatonville, 9844, of which Spring Valley had, in the first ward, 704; second ward, 968; third ward, 639; fourth ward, 2474, and fifth ward, 1439; total in Spring Valley, 6214; Ladd, 1324; Seatonville, 909. The supervisors have been as follows :

Passage source: Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906.

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 Hall Township.

Fires near this place

8 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Seatonville between 2014 and 2015, burning about 217 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000049
17 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000065
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000051
5 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000044
1 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000035
31 March 2014Debris and open burning200 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-0000020
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000032
20 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0000028

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bureau County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Seatonville: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Depue Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1973
New Jersey Zinc Depue PlantZinc, LeadPast Producer
Chiado Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Depue White City PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dieci PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gross PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Obcrhaus Pit & Portable MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Seaton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Yucus Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bureau County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seatonville in 2 storm reports in 2008: 2 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 2008HailSeatonville-Pea to nickel-sized hail fell about three miles north northeast of Depue, IL around 11:01 pm May 31 covering the ground.
June 2008HailSeatonville-Quarter-sized hail fell about 10 miles east of Princeton, IL at 2:25 pm June 15. Most of the hail was quarter-sized with a some hail stones even larger.

Every storm recorded in Bureau 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
Hollowayville1.1 miles13
Ottville1.5 miles13
Marquette2.5 miles13
Depue3.2 miles13
Ladd3.3 miles19
Hicks Corners4.0 miles19
Coal Hollow4.6 miles13
Spring Valley4.8 miles19

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 SeatonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672362The 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 418172. 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.

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.