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White City, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Mount Olive Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62069. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gillespie South quadrangle. 212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 652 feet above sea level.

White City within Macoupin County

Population over time

2 figures

White City fell from 232 to 212 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
2010232
2020212-20 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

In the county-history sources

587 words on this township

History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Mount Olive Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Mount Olive Township - 587 words.

Fires near this place

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of White City between 2009 and 2014, burning about 19 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning1

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
8 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMADISON
4 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesEAGARVILLE
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRT 4
19 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14-000056
6 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBENNETT
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesILL
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRT 138
10 March 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCITY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macoupin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of White City: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Macoupin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White City in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2023Thunderstorm WindWhite City$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees as well as numerous tree limbs around town.
March 2026Tornado (EF1)White City-A tornado touched down just west of the Staunton Reservoir where it damaged trees along Bono Road. The tornado then travelled northeast, causing minor damage to the roofs of a few structures before directly hitting Mount Olive. In Mount Olive, the tornado damaged mostly trees, but the roof of a business was impacted as well. The tornado weakened as it exited town and approached Montgomery County.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWhite City-Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree between Benld and White City. In Mt. Olive, a power pole was snapped off.
June 2011Flash FloodWhite City-Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Old Route 66 at the train track viaduct in Mt. Olive.
April 2010HailWhite City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Macoupin 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
Mount Olive2.0 miles12
Sawyerville2.5 miles11
Carlsburg2.5 miles12
Lake Ka-Ho2.6 miles12
Benld2.9 miles11
Eagerville3.4 miles11
Staunton3.9 miles11
Mount Clare4.1 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 White CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671971The 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 421030. 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.

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.