South Jacksonville, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1990. It stands in South Jacksonville No. 3 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62650. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle. 3,302 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 625 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSouth Jacksonville fell from 3,331 to 3,302 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 | 3,331 | |
| 2020 | 3,302 | -29 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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 Jacksonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1937 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
35 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of South Jacksonville between 2008 and 2019, burning about 172 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BECKER |
| 20 September 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 17406 GRASSFIRE |
| 18 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SOI MM15 |
| 1 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | I72 63 |
| 30 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | POOR FARM |
| 11 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10253 |
| 1 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 800 |
| 8 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BROCKHOUSE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Jacksonville: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Morgan County Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Jacksonville in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | Hail | South Jacksonville | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | South Jacksonville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Davis (historical) | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Portuguese Hill | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Brownton (historical) | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Arnold | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Savage (historical) | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Woodson | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Markham | 5.9 miles | 12 |
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 South Jacksonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q945178 | 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 418790. 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.






