BlockBroadlands, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Ayers Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61816. The Survey maps it on the Allerton quadrangle. 316 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 681 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBroadlands fell from 349 to 316 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 | 349 | |
| 2020 | 316 | -33 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Newman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Allerton quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Allerton quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broadlands in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Broadlands | $350,000 | Numerous trees and tree branches were blown down. Roof damage was reported to 29 structures. A garage was destroyed and several machine sheds were severely damaged or destroyed. In addition, a grain silo was damaged. |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Broadlands | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Broadlands | $80,000 | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Broadlands | $50,000 | Several power poles were blown down in Broadlands. In addition, the roof of a garage was blown off and a metal barn roof was damaged. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Broadlands | - | Several tree branches were broken and part of a fence was blown down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Broadlands | - | A large tree was snapped and power poles were blown down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Broadlands | - | Several 10 to 12-inch diameter tree limbs were blown down in Broadlands. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Broadlands | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Broadlands | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Broadlands | - | Several roads in the Broadlands area were flooded for a brief time due to heavy rains. No structural damage was reported. |
| April 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Broadlands | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a farm yard 2 miles east of Broadlands. One out building was destroyed and another was moved 80 feet from foundation. Also, a metal machine shed was bent in and twisted on one side. |
| April 2015 | Hail | Broadlands | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Broadlands | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Broadlands | - | 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 Broadlands | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671644 | 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 404885. 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.