BlockWillow Hill, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Willow Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62480. The Survey maps it on the Sainte Marie quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 502 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWillow Hill fell from 230 to 172 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 | 230 | |
| 2020 | 172 | -58 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1941 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Ste Marie quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow Hill in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow Hill | $70,000 | Route 33 between Willow Hill and Oblong was closed due to numerous power poles being blown down. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow Hill | $15,000 | Several power lines were blown down in Willow Hill. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow Hill | $3,000 | A tree was blown down at the IL33/49 junction about 6 miles E/NE of Newton. |
| August 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Willow Hill | - | A tornado briefly touched down in an open field just south of Mound Church about 3 miles northeast of Willow Hill at 5:30 PM CDT. It quickly dissipated about 1 minute later, with no damage being reported. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Willow Hill | - | Thunderstorms with very heavy rain produced 2.00 to 3.00 inches of rainfall in less than two hours during the late afternoon. Flash flooding rapidly developed on rural roads in southeast Jasper County, including streets in the town of Ste. Marie. The rain was relatively short lived, so the flash flooding quickly dissipated by early evening. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow Hill | - | Several trees were blown down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookville | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Hunt City | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Sainte Marie | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Boos | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Newton | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Falmouth | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Yale | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Plainfield | 9.5 miles | 13 |
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 Willow Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2085245 | 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 421248. 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.
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.