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Waltonville, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Elk Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62894. The Survey maps it on the Waltonville quadrangle. 408 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 470 feet above sea level.

Waltonville within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Waltonville fell from 434 to 408 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
2010434
2020408-26 (-6%)

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.

In the county-history sources

5,518 words on this township

History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1883; Wall's History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Elk Prairie Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Elk Prairie Township - 5,518 words.

Fires near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Waltonville between 2012 and 2020, burning about 30 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILLER
4 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-03045
19 November 2020Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-3198
18 November 2020Debris and open burning20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-01385

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waltonville in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 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
April 2000Thunderstorm WindWaltonville$40,000The roof of a home was blown off, and a nearby garage was destroyed. A vehicle in the garage was totalled. A fishing boat was overturned on top of the wrecked garage.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindWaltonville$25,000A supercell thunderstorm tracked east-southeast across southern Jefferson County. The greatest concentration of sporadic wind damage was oriented in a 4-mile long swath through Waltonville. Several large trees and tree limbs were downed. Two barns and one car were damaged by falling tree debris. Trusses of a business undergoing a re-roofing project were blown down. Part of a tin roof was blown off the corner of another barn. An uninhabited trailer home was blown off its foundation and demolished. The damage was determined to be from thunderstorm outflow winds, likely from the rear flank of the storm. Peak winds were estimated at 70 to 80 MPH. Toward the end of the damage path, a weak tornado briefly touched down.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindWaltonville$5,000Trees were down and power was out. Winds were estimated over 60 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWaltonville$5,000Trees were down near Waltonville and along Highway 37 south of Mount Vernon.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindWaltonville$5,000no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWaltonville$4,000Objects were blown off porches.
July 2022Flash FloodWaltonville-Street flooding was reported by the public west of Mount Vernon. Between 3 and 4 inches of rain was measured at several sites in western and central Jefferson County.
May 2019FloodWaltonville-About four inches of water was over County Road 9.
April 2017Flash FloodWaltonville-Most creeks were full, and some creeks were overflowing. Low areas were completely flooded. Township roads in low-lying areas were impassable. A trained spotter reported 4.3 inches of rain had fallen overnight.
August 2016FloodWaltonville-A tributary creek of the Big Muddy River flooded a rural road just north of Waltonville. The road was impassable due to one to two feet of water across it. The storm total rainfall since August 13 was 10.15 inches at a location a few miles east of Waltonville.
July 2009Flash FloodWaltonville-Highway flooding was reported along Highway 148 near Waltonville and along Highway 15 near Woodlawn.
May 2009Heavy RainWaltonville-A roadway was flooded.
August 2001HailWaltonville-Golf-ball size hail occurred in and near Waltonville in association with a severe supercell thunderstorm.
August 2001Tornado (F0)Waltonville-A supercell thunderstorm tracked east-southeast across southern Jefferson County. The storm produced a weak tornado that lasted for less than a minute. Evidence of the tornado consisted of damage to a corn field, strong rotation depicted on doppler radar, and an eyewitness account. Peak winds in the tornado were estimated at 70 MPH.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Waltonville-A brief tornado touch down was reported in the Waltonville area.
June 2019HailWaltonville-no account filed
May 2012HailWaltonville-no account filed
May 2006HailWaltonville-no account filed
April 2005HailWaltonville-no account filed
June 2002Flash FloodWaltonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Williamsburg1.7 miles12
Scheller3.4 miles12
Dareville3.4 miles11
Nason4.4 miles11
Emerson City4.8 miles12
Fitzgerrell (historical)5.1 miles12
Marcoe5.6 miles12
Bonnie7.2 miles11

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 WaltonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2118225The 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 420500. 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.