Campus, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Round Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60920. The Survey maps it on the Campus quadrangle. 149 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 658 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCampus fell from 166 to 149 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 | 166 | |
| 2020 | 149 | -17 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1948 USGS Dwight quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Dwight quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Campus quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
5,921 words on this townshipHistorical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Round Grove Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Round Grove Township - 5,921 words.
Fires near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Campus between 2003 and 2018, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 14 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2018-0000013 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Campus in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 3 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Hail | Campus | - | A handful of hail reports were received from east of the town of Campus near the Livingston-Kankakee county line. Sizes mostly ranged between 2 and 4 inches. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Campus | - | Photos shared on social media showed portions of the roof and walls peeled off of a metal farm building along N 3500 E Road. Debris was blown into a field. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Campus | - | A large pine tree was blown down. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Campus | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Campus | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiff | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| Emington | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Blair | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Reddick | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Sullivan Center (historical) | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Loretto | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Dwight | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Saxon (historical) | 8.0 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 Campus | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2028252 | 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 405536. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.






