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Union Hill, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Norton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60969. The Survey maps it on the Buckingham quadrangle. 55 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 616 feet above sea level.

Union Hill within Kankakee County

Population over time

2 figures

Union Hill fell from 58 to 55 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
201058
202055-3 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Union Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
Hershey Sulfur PlantSulfurProducer

Every working recorded in Kankakee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union Hill in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindUnion Hill$1,000Power poles snapped and fell onto a house near 14000 N and Phillips Road.
July 2020Heavy RainUnion Hill-Rainfall of 2.59 inches was measured in 24 hours.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Union Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kankakee 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
Frielings4.1 miles11
Buckingham4.4 miles11
Goodrich4.7 miles12
Herscher4.8 miles12
Pilot Center (historical)5.1 miles12
Essex5.2 miles13
Bonfield5.4 miles11
Clarke City6.2 miles13

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 Union HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660667The 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 420085. 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.