BlockWillisville, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Willisville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62272. The Survey maps it on the Willisville quadrangle. 579 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 495 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWillisville fell from 633 to 579 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 | 633 | |
| 2020 | 579 | -54 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1916 USGS Campbell Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1918 USGS Campbell Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Willisville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Willisville in 2017, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 510517 |
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willisville in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisville | $10,000 | Numerous tree limbs and a few power lines were blown down. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisville | $5,000 | Across far southern parts of the county including DuQuoin, numerous trees, limbs, and power lines were blown down. This resulted in power outages, though of a much shorter duration than counties to the south. Sheet metal roofing was blown off a house in DuQuoin. This damage occurred on the northern fringe of the widespread high winds associated with a derecho. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisville | $4,000 | A tree was uprooted and fell on power lines. Trees were down, blocking Route 4. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisville | - | A trained spotter estimated winds up to 60 MPH. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willisville | - | Several trees were blown down on Route 4. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Willisville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Willisville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Willisville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2585892 | 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 421221. 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.