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.
Population over time
2 figuresSteeleville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,083 | |
| 2020 | 1,930 | -153 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1914 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Steeleville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caseyville Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Hornbastel Shale Exposure | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
17 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Hail | Steeleville | $7,000 | Storm spotters reported hail up to 1 1/4 inch fell for about five minutes. A couple of vehicles were damaged. |
| April 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Steeleville | $5,000 | The county sheriff reported a brief tornado touchdown in Steeleville with damage mainly confined to large trees. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Steeleville | $1,000 | County sheriff reported power lines down and roof damage to a building at an baseball field. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Steeleville | $300 | Golf 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Steeleville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs in Steeleville and Percy. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Steeleville | - | Two large trees were blown down at the intersection of Illinois Routes 4 and 150. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Steeleville | - | The county sheriff reported one-inch diameter hail. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Steeleville | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Steeleville | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Steeleville | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Steeleville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Steeleville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Steeleville | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Steeleville | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Steeleville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Steeleville | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Steeleville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Percy | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Kampenville | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Wine Hill | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Welge | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Blair | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Bremen | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Randolph | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Shiloh Hill | 6.0 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 Steeleville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2505814 | 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 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.





