Adair, Illinois
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in New Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61411. The Survey maps it on the Adair quadrangle. 212 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.
On record in Adair
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Welling-Everly Horse Barnlisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresAdair grew from 210 to 212 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 | 210 | |
| 2020 | 212 | +2 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1918 USGS Vermont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1921 USGS Vermont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Adair quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Adair quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Vermont quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Macomb quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
19 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adair in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | $1,000 | Power poles were downed near Adair. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Adair | - | Pictures and video from social media indicated a brief landspout tornado in open fields. No damage has been reported. Times and location estimated. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Adair | - | Quarter to ping pong size hail covering the ground in a narrow swath. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | - | Several large tree limbs reported blown down. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | - | Media relayed a report of a photo of a large tree broken off 3 feet above the ground. The time was estimated from radar data. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Adair | - | Law enforcement reported that water was 6 inches deep and flowing over a road. It was impacting travel. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Adair | - | Law enforcement reported that North 700th Road between East 200th and East 210th was washed out and closed. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | - | Time was estimated on the report of 4 power poles from the Amren company. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | - | The Emergency Manager reported power poles and lines down in the Adair area. Time and location of the event are estimated. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Adair | - | A trained spotter reported ping pong to golf ball sized hail littering the ground on the northwest wide of Adair. Hail on the ground was of a similar size 4 minutes after the storm had passed. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Adair | - | Ping pong ball sized hail damaged some exposed vehicles in Adair Illinois around 145 AM. The time of the event was estimated and the report was received via E-spotter. |
| November 2013 | Hail | Adair | - | Pea to nickel sized hail fell. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew down some 4 to 5 inch diameter tree limbs in Adair, IL around 630 pm June 4. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Adair | - | Quarter-sized hail fell in Adair, IL around 540 pm June 1. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Adair | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph in Adair, IL around 540 pm June 1. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Adair | - | A spotter reported many hail stones ranging in size from pea to quarter. |
| September 2006 | Heavy Rain | Adair | - | A spotter reported a foot of nearly stationary water on U.S. 136. This location in town is well known for poor drainage during heavy rainfall. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Adair | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Adair | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shoo Fly | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| Pennington Point | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| New Philadelphia | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Bardolph | 6.4 miles | 16 | |
| Industry | 8.6 miles | 16 | |
| Stewardsville (historical) | 8.9 miles | 16 | |
| Bushnell | 9.3 miles | 16 | |
| Macomb | 9.7 miles | 20 |
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 Adair | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4678456 | 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 403339. 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.










