Casey, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Casey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62420. The Survey maps it on the Casey quadrangle. 2,404 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Casey within Clark County

Population over time

3 figures

Casey grew from 778 to 2,404 between 1880 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
1880	778
2010	2,769
2020	2,404	-365 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1936 USGS Casey quadrangle1:48000
1942 USGS Casey quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Casey quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Casey quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Casey quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Casey: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mengel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Casey	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Casey South Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lehigh Main Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

32 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casey in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 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
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	$100,000	Numerous tree branches and power lines were blown down, causing a power outage to much of the town for several hours. A few 8 to 10-inch diameter trees were uprooted.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	$25,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Casey.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	$20,000	Numerous trees, tree limbs, and power lines were blown down.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	$15,000	Several large tree limbs were blown down and a roof was partially torn off a metal shed.
November 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	$15,000	A few trees and several large tree branches were blown down across Casey.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	$15,000	A few power lines were blown down.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	$12,000	A few trees were blown down in Casey.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	$7,000	A tree was blown down onto a house in Casey.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	Several large tree branches were blown down.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	Numerous tree branches and power lines were blown down.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	Several trees were blown down.
September 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Casey	-	A tornado briefly touched down in a field 1.4 miles south of Casey at 6:44pm CDT before quickly dissipating by 6:45pm CDT. Minor crop damage occurred.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Casey	-	Heavy rainfall with rates of 2.00 to 2.50 inches per hours produced flash flooding in a narrow stretch of northern Clark County. Most roads were inundated with water including U.S. Route 40 in Martinsville where there was 2 feet of standing water. In Marshall, 3.00 to 4.00 inches of rain fell in about 90 minutes which flooded most roads in the town.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Casey	-	A narrow band of heavy rain resulted in flooding along and just south of Interestate 70 between Casey and Marshall. Rainfall rates of 1.50 per hour for nearly two hours resulted in the heavy rain and flooded roads.
May 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Casey	-	The tornado touched down and remained in open fields. No damage or injuries were reported.\|
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	Many out buildings were damage and a machine shed was destroyed. Widespread tree, power pole and power line damage was reported. No injuries were reported.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	Numerous tree limbs were blown down. Also, in Casey the roof was blown off of a restaurant.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	Several trees and tree limbs were blown down. One fallen limb in Martinsville pulled power lines down. Three miles north of Casey, part of the roof of a hog containment building was blown off.
February 2001	Flash Flood	Casey	-	State Route 49, south of Casey, was reported to be flooded in spots.
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees in Casey. One car was trapped by the fallen trees. None of the car's occupants were injured.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines in the Casey and Martinsville areas.
February 2026	Hail	Casey	-	no account filed
May 2022	Hail	Casey	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Casey	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Casey	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Casey	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Casey	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Casey	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Casey	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Casey	-	no account filed
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Casey	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cumberland	0.8 miles	17
Oak Point	6.1 miles	14
Moriah	6.3 miles	14
Martinsville	6.4 miles	17
Oilfield	6.5 miles	17
Neadmore	7.8 miles	14
Hogue Town	8.3 miles	14
Moonshine	9.1 miles	14

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 Casey	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575657	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 405672. 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.