Hillview, Illinois

Hillview, Illinois
Village
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	Greene
Coordinates	39°26′59″N 90°32′17″W / 39.44972°N 90.53806°WCoordinates: 39°26′59″N 90°32′17″W / 39.44972°N 90.53806°W
Area	0.82 sq mi (2 km^2)
- land	0.82 sq mi (2 km^2)
- water	0.00 sq mi (0 km^2)
Population	193 (2010)
Density	235.4/sq mi (91/km^2)
Timezone	CST (UTC-6)
- summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
Postal code	62050
Area code	217
Location of Hillview within Illinois
Wikimedia Commons: Hillview, Illinois

Hillview is a village in Greene County, Illinois, United States. The population was 193 at the 2010 census.^[1]

Geography

Hillview is located in northwestern Greene County at 39°26′59″N 90°32′17″W / 39.44972°N 90.53806°W (39.449652, -90.537983),^[2] in the valley of Hurricane Creek where it enters the Illinois River bottomlands. Hillview is 12 miles (19 km) north (upriver) of Eldred and 8 miles (13 km) west of White Hall. Carrollton, the Greene County seat, is 18 miles (29 km) to the southeast.

According to the 2010 census, Hillview has a total area of 0.82 square miles (2.12 km²), all land.^[1]

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1910	309		—
1920	577		86.7%
1930	442		−23.4%
1940	544		23.1%
1950	419		−23.0%
1960	305		−27.2%
1970	322		5.6%
1980	328		1.9%
1990	271		−17.4%
2000	179		−33.9%
2010	193		7.8%
Est. 2015	186	[3]	−3.6%
U.S. Decennial Census[4]

As of the census^[5] of 2000, there were 179 people, 63 households, and 50 families residing in the village. The population density was 211.2 people per square mile (81.3/km²). There were 72 housing units at an average density of 85.0 per square mile (32.7/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 100.00% White.

There were 63 households out of which 30.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.1% were married couples living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.6% were non-families. 19.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.84 and the average family size was 3.24.

In the village the population was spread out with 28.5% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 98.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.9 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $24,167, and the median income for a family was $25,625. Males had a median income of $15,625 versus $18,750 for females. The per capita income for the village was $9,157. About 23.7% of families and 25.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 25.5% of those under the age of eighteen and 15.4% of those sixty five or over.

About Hillview

Hillview is a farming community bordering the Illinois River and includes the Hillview Drainage & Levee District. Hillview sits in a bowl beside the bluffs with a railroad line running alongside the main road and dividing the village. A small lake exists on the edge of town by the Hillview-Eldred Road underpass for part of the year.

Hillview is part of the North Greene Community school system. Hillview Elementary School is now closed and grade school aged children attend Roodhouse. Seventh, eighth graders and high schoolers to White Hall. The mascot of the school system is the Spartan, and school colors are royal blue and white. The symbol is a line drawing of a Spartan head and helmet in profile.

Hillview's Hurricane Creek floods regularly, affecting the southern part of Hillview. The Great Flood of 1993 nearly submerged Hillview completely.

In the 1980s Hillview included two taverns (no longer there), several churches, a post office and an elementary school.

History

(From the Illinois Valley Cultural Heritage Association website) William Shelton, a ranger from Ft. Russell, Edwardsville, chose the alcove at the mouth of Hurricane Creek (creek at Eldred also called Hurricane), in 1826, to build a cabin. He left no record except Shelton's Hill, Shelton’s Spring, and Shelton’s Graveyard. A back water lake bore the name of another early settler, Bucks Lake, for Joseph Buck, 1825. Another family name is Bishop’s Dell for James Bishop, 1830. The farm where Bishop's Dell was located is bordered on the south by Trimley creek and the barn that James Bishop constructed using wooden pegs still stands as well as the foundation of his one-room stone home built against the bluff. Seely and Hodges built a mill on the creek in 1833. W. D. Wells came from North Carolina in 1834 and planted a small apple orchard on his farm. Later the McClay Orchard became famous for its varieties of apples and methods in orchard management. When the Chicago and Alton Railroad connected with the Kansas City branch at Roodhouse, Hillview was a lumber camp called Happy Ville. This is the same on the Illinois Atlas map of Greene County, 1876. The village of Hillview was incorporated in 1903. It still remains the route of the Illinois Central Gulf West.

Indian history

In the 1980s, the Kampsville Archeological Center, located in Kampsville, Illinois, dug in the sand ridge area west of Hillview. Pottery, axes, grinding stones and arrowheads are not uncommon in this area, and it was theorized that the area was a factory for arrowheads at one time, without permanent settlement.

References

1. "G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Census Summary File 1". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2015-08-03.
2. "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
3. "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015". Retrieved July 2, 2016.
4. "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Archived from the original on May 11, 2015. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
5. "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.