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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.

Thompsonville within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Thompsonville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010543
2020486-57 (-10%)

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

2 since 2010

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
1 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10294
1 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10222

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2008FloodThompsonville$1,500,000Residents 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 2022Tornado (EF0)Thompsonville$62,000Trees 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 1994Thunderstorm WindThompsonville$50,000Trees were blown down and a roof was torn off a mobile home.
May 2011FloodThompsonville$30,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindThompsonville$25,000Trees 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 2015Thunderstorm WindThompsonville$4,000Large tree limbs were blown down.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindThompsonville$3,000A shed was blown into the woods. A few trees were blown down. Minor damage occurred to a few residences.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindThompsonville$2,000Large limbs were down in eastern parts of the county.
June 2021Flash FloodThompsonville-Water was over County Road 10.
August 2016FloodThompsonville-State Highway 14 and a secondary road near Thompsonville were covered by water in spots.
September 2015Heavy RainThompsonville-A trained spotter reported 3.90 inches of rainfall from thunderstorms during the night.
December 2015Heavy RainThompsonville-A storm total rainfall of 4.90 inches was reported since the morning of the 26th.
April 2009HailThompsonville-The ground was covered by hail.
May 2009Tornado (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 2004Tornado (F0)Thompsonville-A brief tornado touchdown was observed. No damage was reported.
April 2002HailThompsonville-A very brief period of quarter size hail, lasting less than 30 seconds, was reported.
September 2017HailThompsonville-no account filed
March 2012Funnel CloudThompsonville-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindThompsonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Kegley1.2 miles18
Ferber1.3 miles18
Parrish3.1 miles18
Greenville (historical)3.4 miles18
Locust Grove (historical)3.6 miles18
Smothersville4.9 miles18
Logan4.9 miles18
Akin4.9 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 ThompsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672086The 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.