Bureau, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Leepertown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61315. It stands on Old Channel Big Bureau Creek. The Survey maps it on the Depue quadrangle. 281 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 489 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBureau fell from 322 to 281 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 | 322 | |
| 2020 | 281 | -41 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1893 USGS Hennepin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1909 USGS Hennepin quadrangle1:62500
- 1911 USGS Hennepin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Depue quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bureau: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depue Phosphoric Acid Plant | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | 1973 | |
| New Jersey Zinc Depue Plant | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Bureau Rawson Plant #6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Embs Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Morine Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Newbaum Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sendelbach Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bureau in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2005 | Hail | Bureau | $50,000 | Hail was mainly pea to quarter (1.00 inch) size with some golfball (1.75 inch) and a few baseball (2.75 inch) stones. |
| October 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bureau | $25,000 | Strong winds estimated at 70 mph caused considerable damage to the Village of Bureau. Trees were downed throughout the village. Windows were broken out of a house on Chicago Street. On Rock Island Street, a tree was blown down on a garage, causing the garage to collapse on a vehicle inside. Fortunately nobody was inside the vehicle at the time. Headstones in Greenwood Cemetery were damaged by fallen trees, and a local school had roof tiles and an outdoor security light blown off. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Bureau | - | A spotter reported a mix of pea to quarter size hail. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bureau | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. The time was estimated from radar data. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Bureau | - | Golf ball sized hail fell in Bureau, IL at 1155 pm May 24. |
| June 2006 | Heavy Rain | Bureau | - | 2 inches of rain with most falling between 1745 and 1815 CST |
| June 2006 | Hail | Bureau | - | penny size hail near the jct of IL 26 & 29 |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bureau | - | Large tree limbs down. |
| October 2000 | Lightning | Bureau | - | Lightning knocked out power to the Village of Bureau for more than 13 hours. Leepertown grade school was given an unexpected day off on Wednesday, due to the lengthy power outage. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Bureau | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Bureau | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depue | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Coal Hollow | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Marquette | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hollowayville | 6.4 miles | 13 | |
| Ottville | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Seatonville | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Tiskilwa | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Princeton | 7.5 miles | 13 |
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 Bureau | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2608245 | 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 405211. 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.






