Spaulding, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Clear Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62561. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Springfield East quadrangle. 801 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSpaulding fell from 873 to 801 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 | 873 | |
| 2020 | 801 | -72 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 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.
- 1907 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1930 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1940 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Springfield East quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Springfield East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Springfield East quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,685 words on this townshipHistory of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Clear Lake Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Clear Lake township is well supplied with streams of living water. The north fork of the Sangamon river enters on section thirty-six, and the south fork enters on section thirty-three, the two uniting on section twenty-seven, and flowing northward, emerges from the township from section five, but returns within a quarter of a mile, flows westward, and enters Springfield township from section six. Sugar creek enters the township on section thirty-one, and flowing in a northeasterly direction, unites with the Sangamon river on section twenty-eight. Clear Lake is a beautiful sheet of water, about one half mile in length and an average width of two hundred yards. On the banks of this lake, many pic-nic parties are held each summer, and boats are provided for sailing and rowing upon the lake.
Passage source: History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881.
The recollection of the first school in what is now Clear Lake township, by the " old settlers " of 1881, dates back to 1828. About this time there were two school houses built, one on the north, and the other on the south side of the river. Riley Jones taught the one on the south side of the river in the winter of 1828. This school house was similar to all others built in the county at the time, being of logs.
Passage source: History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881.
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 Clear Lake Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Fires near this place
17 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Spaulding between 2010 and 2014, burning about 105 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13-0000327 |
| 17 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10308 |
| 8 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10259 |
| 19 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10228 |
| 5 May 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-0000148 |
| 6 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-0000112 |
| 24 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-0000096 |
| 23 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14-0000093 |
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 Spaulding: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Lake Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Riverton Barrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spaulding in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spaulding | $20,000 | Numerous large tree branches were blown down. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spaulding | $20,000 | An unanchored mobile home was blown off its pad near the intersection of Williamsville Road and Turkey Run Road. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spaulding | $3,000 | Two trees were blown down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spaulding | - | Numerous tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Spaulding | - | State Route 54 was closed northeast of Spaulding due to flooding. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Spaulding | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barclay | 1.3 miles | 20 | |
| Riverton | 1.5 miles | 20 | |
| Bissell | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Peabody | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Sherman | 3.9 miles | 17 | |
| Clear Lake | 3.9 miles | 20 | |
| Devereux Heights | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Streadle | 4.0 miles | 20 |
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 Spaulding | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2530186 | 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 418882. 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.








