BlockBefore

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.

Adair within McDonough County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Adair 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.

YearPeople Change
2010210
2020212+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2006Thunderstorm WindAdair$1,000Power poles were downed near Adair.
May 2024Tornado (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 2024HailAdair-Quarter to ping pong size hail covering the ground in a narrow swath.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAdair-Several large tree limbs reported blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAdair-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 2019Flash FloodAdair-Law enforcement reported that water was 6 inches deep and flowing over a road. It was impacting travel.
April 2017Flash FloodAdair-Law enforcement reported that North 700th Road between East 200th and East 210th was washed out and closed.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAdair-Time was estimated on the report of 4 power poles from the Amren company.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindAdair-The Emergency Manager reported power poles and lines down in the Adair area. Time and location of the event are estimated.
April 2014HailAdair-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 2014HailAdair-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 2013HailAdair-Pea to nickel sized hail fell.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAdair-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 2009HailAdair-Quarter-sized hail fell in Adair, IL around 540 pm June 1.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAdair-Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph in Adair, IL around 540 pm June 1.
May 2008HailAdair-A spotter reported many hail stones ranging in size from pea to quarter.
September 2006Heavy RainAdair-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 2005HailAdair-no account filed
May 1998HailAdair-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonough 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
Shoo Fly1.1 miles18
Pennington Point3.5 miles16
New Philadelphia5.0 miles18
Bardolph6.4 miles16
Industry8.6 miles16
Stewardsville (historical)8.9 miles16
Bushnell9.3 miles16
Macomb9.7 miles20

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 AdairAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4678456The 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.