White Hall, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in White Hall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62092. The Survey maps it on the Roodhouse West quadrangle. 2,295 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.

White Hall within Greene County

On record in White Hall

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

White Hall Foundrylisted 1980
White Hall Historic Districtlisted 1987
White Hall Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1993

Population over time

2 figures

White Hall fell from 2,520 to 2,295 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	2,520
2020	2,295	-225 (-9%)

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.

1924 USGS Roodhouse quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1926 USGS Roodhouse quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Roodhouse West quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Jerseyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

37,197 words on this township

History of Greene County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing a History of the County ; Its Cities, Towns, Etc. ; a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens ; War Record.., published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on White Hall Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

White Hall, one of the most flourishing towns in Southern Illinois, whose tile, sewer pipe and pottery finds its way all over the Union, was founded by David Barrow, on the 12th day of January, 1832. The town plat which was recorded March 9, 1832, in the presence of J. J. Cavell, a justice of the peace, reveals the fact that White Hall was laid out on the southeast corner of section 35, in township 12, north of range 12 west The plat was surveyed by Jeremiah Smith, Deputy Surveyor of Greene County, and contained forty-eight lots and four streets, known as West street. East street, Main street, and Church street.

Passage source: History of Greene County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing a History of the County ; Its Cities, Towns, Etc. ; a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens ; War Record.., published 1879.

There have since been the following additions to the town, viz : L. E Worcester's first and second additions in 1860 and 1863 respectively; I 'd Vedder's addition in 1864; Bates' in 1873; A. F. Vedder's m 1873; Ayers' first, second and third additions. Culver's, Israel's, Milne's, Davis and Carr's first and second, and Drummond's.

The first settlements in townsliip 12, r. 12, in which White Hall is situated, were probably made about the 3^ear 1820. About that time came Charles Kitchen, afterward a Baptist minister, Lewis Roberts, John Thompson, and others. The next year we hear of the arrival of Absalom Frames and William Hudson.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on White Hall Township - it names this place 123 more 123 times.

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 Hall: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Purington Clay Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
	Valstad Quarry #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Hall in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	$10,000	The County Sheriff reported large tree limbs down. One fell on and damaged a home.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines around town as well as numerous tree limbs.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	$300	Wind gusts reached 60 mph with several large trees blown down.
May 1995	Tornado (F1)	White Hall	$145	The Illinois State Police and storm spotters followed a tornado from the White Hall area to near Manchester. The tornado lifted off the ground at times but did damage several farm buildings and trees as it traveled nearly parallel to Highway 267.
April 2024	Hail	White Hall	-	Large hail up to 1.75 inches was reported in White Hall and Roodhouse.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines around town, as well as numerous tree limbs.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees and power lines around town.
June 2014	Flash Flood	White Hall	-	Up to 4 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. The town of Hillview became isolated as all the roads travelling into town were impassable due to flooding from Hurricane Creek. A number of homes in town had water in them.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs around town. Also, several power lines were blown down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
August 2004	Funnel Cloud	White Hall	-	A storm spotter reported a funnel cloud southwest of White Hall.
August 2003	Hail	White Hall	-	The Sheriff Department reported 3/4 inch hail in White Hall.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and power lines.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage across much of White Hall. Numerous trees and power lines were down with virtually the entire town without power for at least 4 hours. One small home was destroyed when a large tree fell on it. Numerous vehicles were damaged by falling trees as well.
April 2000	Hail	White Hall	-	Hail up to golfball size was reported from White Hall to Roodhouse .
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	The local newspaper reported trees down in White Hall.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	Local law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
April 2012	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	White Hall	-	no account filed
December 1996	Hail	White Hall	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Roodhouse	3.6 miles	12
Belltown	3.8 miles	12
Hanks Station	3.9 miles	12
Barrow	4.8 miles	12
Berdan	5.0 miles	12
Patterson	5.2 miles	12
Walkerville	6.0 miles	12
Pegram	6.3 miles	12

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 Hall	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577345	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 421040. 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.