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Smithboro, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pleasant Mound Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62284. The Survey maps it on the Mulberry Grove quadrangle. 154 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Smithboro within Bond County

Population over time

2 figures

Smithboro fell from 177 to 154 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
2010177
2020154-23 (-13%)

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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Smithboro between 2009 and 2010, burning about 84 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1

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
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLINKS
1 April 2010Smoking20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWHITE
2 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBROWN
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesROACH
6 November 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesJOHN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bond County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Smithboro: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mccaland Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Old Bond County Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pruitt's Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
R. M. Rench Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Bond County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smithboro in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
April 2001Thunderstorm WindSmithboro$5,000Thunderstorm wind gusts blew over a tractor-trailer on Interstate 70 near Smithboro.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSmithboro-Several large tree limbs, trees and power lines were blown down. One tree fell on a house in town causing minor roof damage.
August 2009HailSmithboro-no account filed
March 2007HailSmithboro-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindSmithboro-no account filed
June 1998HailSmithboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bond 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
Durley3.0 miles13
Pleasant Mound3.5 miles12
Greenville3.9 miles12
Hamburg4.1 miles12
Mulberry Grove4.3 miles13
Woburn4.3 miles13
Hookdale5.1 miles12
Dudleyville6.5 miles12

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 SmithboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1843764The 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 418651. 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.