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Steeleville, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Steeleville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62288. It stands on North Fork Cox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Steeleville quadrangle. 1,930 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Steeleville within Randolph County

Population over time

2 figures

Steeleville fell from 2,083 to 1,930 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
20102,083
20201,930-153 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Steeleville: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Caseyville Shale ExposureClayProspect
Hornbastel Shale ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steeleville in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2008HailSteeleville$7,000Storm spotters reported hail up to 1 1/4 inch fell for about five minutes. A couple of vehicles were damaged.
April 1994Tornado (F0)Steeleville$5,000The county sheriff reported a brief tornado touchdown in Steeleville with damage mainly confined to large trees.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindSteeleville$1,000County sheriff reported power lines down and roof damage to a building at an baseball field.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindSteeleville$300Golf ball-size hail was reported in Walsh with numerous trees and power lines down between Chester and Steeleville. The roof of a drug store in Chester was partially ripped away. About 1,900 households were also without power in Prairie Du Rocher, Ruma, and Red Bud.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSteeleville-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs in Steeleville and Percy.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindSteeleville-Two large trees were blown down at the intersection of Illinois Routes 4 and 150.
April 1994HailSteeleville-The county sheriff reported one-inch diameter hail.
March 2019HailSteeleville-no account filed
July 2012HailSteeleville-no account filed
June 2011HailSteeleville-no account filed
May 2008HailSteeleville-no account filed
April 2006HailSteeleville-no account filed
May 2004HailSteeleville-no account filed
April 1998HailSteeleville-no account filed
April 1998HailSteeleville-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSteeleville-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindSteeleville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Percy2.2 miles13
Kampenville3.1 miles13
Wine Hill4.1 miles19
Welge4.5 miles19
Blair5.1 miles12
Bremen5.3 miles19
Randolph5.6 miles19
Shiloh Hill6.0 miles20

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 SteelevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2505814The 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 419088. 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.

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.