Thompsonville, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Cave Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62890. The Survey maps it on the Thompsonville quadrangle. 486 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 502 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresThompsonville fell from 543 to 486 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 | 543 | |
| 2020 | 486 | -57 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 18 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.
- 1909 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Thompsonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:62500
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Thompsonville in 2010, burning about 6 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10294 |
| 1 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10222 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thompsonville in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 tornado, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2008 | Flood | Thompsonville | $1,500,000 | Residents were evacuated from their homes and taken to a shelter. Flooding was most serious in West Frankfort, where there were concerns about the safety of the drinking water. It was later determined that no contamination occurred. The city's sewer plant was shut down after it flooded. Most of the evacuations in West Frankfort were on the northwest side of town. Two structures on the south end of town received major damage, including a large business. Basement flooding rose to the floor joists of the first floor of several structures. A number of dogs drowned in flooded pens and doghouses, while many others were rescued. In Royalton, a woman was trapped in her house for more than 24 hours. She was standing in more than a foot of water. Flooding on Main Street in Royalton came within a foot or two of village hall and the post office. Several roads were closed by flooding. Illinois Route 37 was closed north and south of West Frankfort. A woman was trapped in a submerged vehicle on Route 37 and was pulled to safety. A few streets in Benton were submerged. Drivers not familiar with the streets ended up in ditches after losing sight of the road surface. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Thompsonville | $62,000 | Trees were uprooted and snapped. Three outbuildings were partially damaged. A few houses sustained shingle damage. There was roof and siding damage to homes in Akin. Maximum winds were estimated near 80 mph based on a storm damage survey. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsonville | $50,000 | Trees were blown down and a roof was torn off a mobile home. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Thompsonville | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsonville | $25,000 | Trees were down on power lines. Large limbs were blown down. A pool was blown apart, and a lawn mower was flipped by the wind. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsonville | $4,000 | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsonville | $3,000 | A shed was blown into the woods. A few trees were blown down. Minor damage occurred to a few residences. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsonville | $2,000 | Large limbs were down in eastern parts of the county. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Thompsonville | - | Water was over County Road 10. |
| August 2016 | Flood | Thompsonville | - | State Highway 14 and a secondary road near Thompsonville were covered by water in spots. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Thompsonville | - | A trained spotter reported 3.90 inches of rainfall from thunderstorms during the night. |
| December 2015 | Heavy Rain | Thompsonville | - | A storm total rainfall of 4.90 inches was reported since the morning of the 26th. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Thompsonville | - | The ground was covered by hail. |
| May 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Thompsonville | - | The tornado resulted in a swath of downed trees in rural areas. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph. The tornado path continued into Williamson County. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Thompsonville | - | A brief tornado touchdown was observed. No damage was reported. |
| April 2002 | Hail | Thompsonville | - | A very brief period of quarter size hail, lasting less than 30 seconds, was reported. |
| September 2017 | Hail | Thompsonville | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Thompsonville | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thompsonville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kegley | 1.2 miles | 18 | |
| Ferber | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Parrish | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Greenville (historical) | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Locust Grove (historical) | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Smothersville | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Logan | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Akin | 4.9 miles | 18 |
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 Thompsonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672086 | 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 419677. 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.
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.











