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Beecher, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60401. The Survey maps it on the Beecher East quadrangle. 4,713 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Beecher within Will County

On record in Beecher

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

Beecher grew from 4,359 to 4,713 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
20104,359
20204,713+354 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beecher in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 2 flood. 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
May 2011LightningBeecher$300,000A house near the intersection of South Ashland Avenue and Peotone-Beecher Road caught on fire after being struck by lightning. The roof and second story were completely destroyed by the fire and the first floor was destroyed by water damage.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBeecher$55,000A large tree was blown down damaging a home. Three power lines were blown down two miles south of Beecher.
April 1994Tornado (F1)Beecher$50,000Two small tornadoes touched down producing parallel paths about 0.50 to 1 mile apart. The first tornado touched down southeast of Beecher damaging a house roof, grain bins and other farm buildings. A few trees and limbs were also damaged and one power pole was pushed partly over. The tornado lifted just west of the Indiana state line. Another tornado touched down about 0.50 mile northwest of where the first tornado lifted in eastern Will County. It crossed the state line into Lake County Indiana 5 miles east of Beecher. On the Illinois side the tornado blew down tree limbs and knocked down an antenna. One house had its roof taken off at the state line. On the Indiana side, several farm buildings were damaged and a row of pine trees was uprooted at another farm.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBeecher$1,000At least five large trees were blown down, some fell onto power lines.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Power poles and trees were downed in Beecher. A fire was started when one branch fell onto a power line.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Multiple tree limbs were blown down in and near Beecher.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBeecher-A large tree limb was snapped off of a tree.
August 2021Heavy RainBeecher-Rainfall of 3.76 inches was measured in 1 hour and 20 minutes.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBeecher-A 25 to 30 foot tall tree was blown over onto a fence. Wind gusts were estimated to 65 mph.
June 2020Funnel CloudBeecher-A funnel cloud was reported in the vicinity of Beecher.
July 2019Heavy RainBeecher-Rainfall of 1.60 inches was measured in 25 minutes.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBeecher-An old barn was pushed off its foundation and a silo was damaged.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Several large tree limbs were blown down. One large tree was snapped and a garage was damaged.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Several silos and associated equipment were blown over and damaged on W County Line Road. A large tree limb was blown down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBeecher-A one foot diameter tree, 20 to 30 feet tall, was uprooted along County Line Road.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Beecher-A trained spotter recorded a video of a brief landspout near Beecher looking north from Route 1. No damage was reported.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Trees around 10 inches in diameter along with other tree limbs were blown down east of Beecher around a golf course.
May 2011HailBeecher-Up to golf ball size hail was reported near the town of Beecher. Specific reports include golf ball and half dollar size hail approximately one and two miles south of Beecher, respectively, on Illinois Route 1. Half dollar size hail was also reported near the intersection of Ashland Avenue and Peotone-Beecher Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBeecher-A one foot diameter tree was blown down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBeecher-A four inch diameter tree was snapped off 4 feet above the ground.
April 2006FloodBeecher-Beecher Road closed due to flooding. Other roads under water.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Trees were blown down.
July 2006FloodBeecher-One foot of water covering Route 1, one mile south of Beecher. Peotone measured 2.02 inches of rainfall.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBeecher-Numerous trees were blown down in the Racoon Grove Forest Preserve. At the Pheasant Lake Estates, a 6 inch tree was uprooted, a trailer was damaged, a shed was moved and leveled and a car port was blown down.
April 2004Tornado (F0)Beecher-A weak tornado pulled shingles off two mobile homes near the corner of 319th and Yates. There was minor roof damage to a barn.
May 2004HailBeecher-Reported at the intersection of Eagle Road and Western Road.
May 2004HailBeecher-Reported at Eagle Road and IL Route 1.
July 2016HailBeecher-no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBeecher-no account filed
July 2012HailBeecher-no account filed
May 2006HailBeecher-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindBeecher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Will 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
Claus2.1 miles13
Polk2.1 miles13
Goodenow3.6 miles17
Eagle Lake4.1 miles13
Faithorn6.1 miles16
Crete7.2 miles17
Country Meadows7.6 miles17
Heatherbrook Estates7.8 miles17

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 BeecherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2214752The 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 404101. 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.