Assumption, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Assumption Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62510. The Survey maps it on the Assumption quadrangle. 1,155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Assumption within Christian County

On record in Assumption

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

Illinois State Bank Buildinglisted 1984

Population over time

2 figures

Assumption fell from 1,168 to 1,155 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	1,168
2020	1,155	-13 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1952 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Assumption quadrangle1:24000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Assumption township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880 - Assumption Township

Robert A. Hazlett

Ha/.lett, grandtather of Mr. Hazlett, came from Irelaud and settled in North Carolina before the Revolutionary war. Chandler Hazlett, his grandfather's brother, was a soldier in the Revolution. He was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, and there is still pres'erved in the family a book which he picked up as he crawled off that hotly contested field.

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In the county-history sources

35,922 words on this township

History of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Assumption Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

After a time, Elsie E. Malhiot, having purchased most of the lands in the vicinity, laid out an addition on the south-west part of the town, with suitable streets, a public square, market place, grounds for church purposes, the " A.-suniption cemetery," Catholic cemetery - which he named Assumption, after his own plantatiem in Louisiana, virtually making but one town, though having two name.s. Taeusa was first surveyed by C. A. Manners, Kov. 1 , 1865, including the addition, and the name was changed to Assun)]itiou. The Canadian colonists, in 1857, mo.sth' settled in Malhiot's addition, and the town began to assume greater proportions. They erected twenty or thirty dwelling houses, a large three-story storehouse, a warehouse, a blacksmith shop and other buildings.

Passage source: History of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880.

For some fifteen years after the location of the station Assumj>- tion was a point fir the shipment of all the goods and produce to and from Taylorville. It was the nearest station, and was fourteen miles distant. Large consignments of goods for Taylorville were received at Assumption. The great number of teams that were daily passing between these points added materiallv to the life and business interests of the place.

Passage source: History of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880.

The Presbyterian Church was the first Protestant church organized in Assumption. By authority from the Sangamon Presbvterv, May 7, 1859, Eev. H. R. Lewis organized tlie above church at the residence of Marcus L. Barrett. There were twenty-four member.s. S. C. Sheller and Wm. J. Calhoun were chcseti ruling ciders. The first communion was held the next day, March 8th, at the re.sidence of Jaejl) 0/erholt. There was no Protestant church or hall iu the place. The regular preaching exercises of the Sabbath were held in the railroad depot. A small church building was erected and dedicati'd June 23d, 1861, during the ministration e)f the Rev. Chirk Loudon.

Passage source: History of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880.

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 Assumption Township - it names this place 25 more 25 times.

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Assumption in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 7 tornado, 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Assumption	$35,000	Numerous tree limbs were blown down and a shed was damaged in Assumption.
August 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Assumption	$20,000	A tornado touched down about 1.2 miles north of Assumption at 9:40 PM CDT. The tornado tracked east-southward, breaking several large tree limbs at a home, which punched a hole in the roof of the home. Along County Road 2650 East, a trailer was overturned and pushed into an outbuilding. The tornado then crossed into Shelby County 1.6 miles northeast of Assumption at 9:43 PM CDT.
March 2026	Tornado (EF1)	Assumption	-	This tornado began just southwest of Assumption and moved along west Illinois Street where it uprooted or snapped numerous trees and downed power lines. The tornado continued through Assumption, producing more tree damage and removing roofing material from a downtown building. The tornado damage a few more trees northeast of town before dissipating prior to reaching Highway 51. The tornado was rated EF-1, and was in progress for just two minutes.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Assumption	-	Several large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Assumption	-	A large tree was broken off at the base.
May 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Assumption	-	A landspout tornado briefly touched down in an open field at 4:30PM CDT. No damage occurred.
April 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Assumption	-	The tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported.\|
April 2006	Tornado (F1)	Assumption	-	The tornado briefly touched down causing minor roof and tree damage.
April 2006	Tornado (F0)	Assumption	-	A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No injuries or damage were reported.
January 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Assumption	-	Power line and large tree down.
April 1998	Tornado (F0)	Assumption	-	A tornado briefly touched down in a field 7.5 miles north of Assumption. No injuries or damage were reported.
March 2024	Hail	Assumption	-	no account filed
April 2024	Hail	Assumption	-	no account filed
November 2013	Hail	Assumption	-	no account filed
June 1998	Hail	Assumption	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Christian 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dunkel	3.7 miles	11
Radford	4.0 miles	11
Millersville	7.5 miles	11
Owaneco	8.1 miles	11
Old Stonington	8.2 miles	10
Sandersville	8.6 miles	10
Hewittville	9.0 miles	10
Richwood Manor	9.0 miles	11

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 Assumption	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575351	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 403686. 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.