Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Noble, IL

Noble is a village in Richland County whose land was originally deeded by President Millard Fillmore to Lemuel Truitt in 1853, and Truitt is established as the first settler to come out of the wooded area and across the prairie to live in what became Noble.

Noble was laid out in 1862 by Judge Alfred Kitchell of Olney, with the village consisting of 20 blocks of 16 lots each laid out paralleling the railroad.

Lemuel Truitt donated the land in Noble now used by some of the churches, the park and the recreational grounds west of the park.

One long-told story of Noble's name is that a large number of its early settlers came from Noble County, Ohio.

Noble's post office opened in 1854, before the village itself was platted, and Noble Township had first been settled by the Evans family as early as 1818.

Noble had a population of 633 at the 2020 census, down from 677 in 2010.

At the 2000 census, Noble had 746 people living in 318 households, and in 2010 it was Richland County's second most populous community after Olney.

Noble covers just over one square mile in southeastern Illinois and sits a short distance from U.S. Route 50, the transcontinental highway running from Maryland to California.

Noble's population jumped from 473 in 1930 to 855 in 1940, an increase of more than 80 percent in a single decade.