BlockAlexis, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Spring Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61412. The Survey maps it on the Alexis quadrangle. 793 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
On record in Alexis
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
Alexis Opera Houselisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresAlexis fell from 831 to 793 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 | 831 | |
| 2020 | 793 | -38 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 10 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.
- 1923 USGS Alexis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1925 USGS Alexis quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Alexis quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
5,838 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Album of Warren County, Illinois : Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States ; Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement Up to the Present Time, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Spring Grove Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
John Armstrong and Wm. Miller with their families came in, in 1834. John H. Frantz and family located in the township, in 1835, and David H. Mc- Curry, in 1836. Horace Smith with his family enlarged the settlement in 1837. He came from Pennsylvania with his wife, Margaret, and four children - Robert, Isabelle, Mary and John. Charles and Owen were born in the township. Mr. Smith located on section 3, on which place lie lived until 1858, when he died. His widow survived him nearly a score of years, and died in the spring of 1885. All the children are living. Mary, who was married to Nathan Pettit, is living at Alexis.
A postoffice was opened at Spring Grove, in 1835, soon after the Rock Island stage route was established. There was a little settlement at this place, and some trading done before the Rock Island & St. Louis R. R., was built and the town of Alexis was started, when the business, with most of the settlement here, moved to the latter place.
Richardson & Riner opened the first hotel at the depot. This hotel is now kept by Blayney and called the Alexis House. About the same time, U. W. Hull started a hotel on the corner of Main and South Streets, called the Alexandria House.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Spring Grove Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexis in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexis | $30,000 | While a tornado was moving across the north part of the town (in Mercer County), downburst winds or the rear flank downdraft downed power lines and trees in the south part of the town with varying amounts of damage done to structures. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexis | - | Widespread wind damage with reports of shed roofs ripped off and large trees down. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexis | - | Several tree limbs downed by the thunderstorm winds, which were 4 inches in diameter or larger. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Alexis | - | Hail ranged from penny to 1.5 inches. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexis | - | Power poles were broken with 3 to 5 inch diameter tree branches down. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexis | - | A trained spotter also reported pea size hail with the estimated wind gust. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexis | - | A trained spotter reported estimated winds of 50 to 60 MPH. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Alexis | - | A brief period of pea to nickel sized hail was reported. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Alexis | - | Heavy rains resulted in some flash flooding of some roads and creeks in Alexis, IL during the evening of May 25. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Alexis | - | Several city roads closed due to high water. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Alexis | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Alexis | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexis | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shanghai City | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Alexis Junction | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Shaw | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Woodvale | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Spring Grove (historical) | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Gerlaw | 5.8 miles | 18 | |
| Utah | 6.5 miles | 18 | |
| Coldbrook | 8.3 miles | 18 |
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 Alexis | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q295529 | 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 403405. 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.