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Spillertown, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1987. It stands in East Marion precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62959. The Survey maps it on the Johnston City quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Spillertown within Williamson County

Population over time

2 figures

Spillertown fell from 203 to 181 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
2010203
2020181-22 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Spillertown between 1994 and 2013, burning about 187 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10206
11 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10171
11 August 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCrab Orchard National Wildlife RefugeAREA6
8 June 2013Natural1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13111
14 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13107
22 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10096
10 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10084
7 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10052

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spillertown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Williamson Co. Hwy. Dept.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spillertown in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 flood, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2024FloodSpillertown-Minor street flooding occurred on the north side of Marion due to overflowing ditches.
March 2023FloodSpillertown-Standing water was over roads in the area.
August 2016Flash FloodSpillertown-The intersection of two county roads just northeast of Marion was under swiftly moving water. Water was bubbling out of the top of a sewer and spilling out of ditches in Marion. An observer near Carterville measured a two-day storm total of 6.5 inches.
September 2006LightningSpillertown-Lightning was the likely cause of a house fire that killed two women.
September 2017HailSpillertown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Dog Walk0.9 miles18
White Ash1.6 miles18
Marion2.6 miles20
Fergestown3.0 miles18
Crenshaw Crossing3.2 miles18
Johnston City3.8 miles18
Pittsburg3.8 miles17
Shakerag3.9 miles18

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 SpillertownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671686The 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 418904. 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.