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Wilsonville, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Dorchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62093. The Survey maps it on the Gillespie South quadrangle. 536 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 641 feet above sea level.

Wilsonville within Macoupin County

Population over time

2 figures

Wilsonville fell from 586 to 536 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
2010586
2020536-50 (-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

703 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 Dorchester Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Dorchester Township - 703 words.

Fires near this place

17 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Wilsonville between 2008 and 2014, burning about 34 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/undetermined16
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
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
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLAKE
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
6 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPARK
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRT16 164
21 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesGILLESPIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macoupin County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Wilsonville: 3 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Macoupin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilsonville in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2008: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindWilsonville$10,000Thunderstorm winds took the roof off a machine shed, and tore some roof shingles and siding off a home on Route 138 near Wilsonville.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWilsonville-A couple of power poles were reported down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWilsonville-Thunderstorms winds downed trees and crops west of Wilsonville along a 1.5 mile path west and east of Highway 15.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Wilsonville-The fourth tornado that formed alone the leading edge of a bowing segment of a squall line formed near the south edge of Wilsonville and moved northeast crossing Willhoit Airport Road at approximately 6:10 pm. One machine shed was totally destroyed while a second adjacent machine shed sustained damage. Debris from both was tossed up to 300 yards to the northeast. Some of the debris was wrapped around tree trunks while other debris was mangled just above the trunks. A third machine shed just south of Highway 138 on Willhoit Airport Road was also damaged. Debris from this machine shed was tossed up to 400 yards to the northeast. The tornado also caused tree damage just east of Willhoit Airport Road.
May 2005HailWilsonville-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
Baylestown1.9 miles12
Dorchester1.9 miles12
Mount Clare2.5 miles11
Sawyerville2.6 miles11
Benld3.2 miles11
Millville4.4 miles12
Gillespie4.5 miles11
Eagerville4.8 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 WilsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2301987The 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 421309. 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.