BlockBellflower, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bellflower Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61724. The Survey maps it on the Bellflower quadrangle. 346 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBellflower fell from 357 to 346 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 | 357 | |
| 2020 | 346 | -11 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1952 USGS Arrowsmith quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Bellflower quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Champaign quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bellflower: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H. Darling Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ryan Pit No. 39 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bellflower in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellflower | $80,000 | Numerous large trees and tree branches were blown down. A power pole was broken, and the roof of a shed was damaged. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellflower | $40,000 | Six power poles were blown down on 100N and 3700E. Two trucks were rolled over and a home suffered minor damage due to a falling tree branch. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellflower | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellflower | - | A light pole was snapped. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellflower | - | Multiple trees and tree branches were blown down. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellflower | - | Multiple trees were blown down and two windows were broken. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellflower | - | A large tree limb was blown down near Bellflower. |
| March 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bellflower | - | 60 X 120 foot pole building destroyed on farm. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bellflower | - | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Bellflower | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Bellflower | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Bellflower | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Bellflower | - | 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.
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 Bellflower | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671663 | 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 426585. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.