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Congerville, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Montgomery Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61729. The Survey maps it on the Danvers quadrangle. 497 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Congerville within Woodford County

Population over time

2 figures

Congerville grew from 474 to 497 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.

YearPeople Change
2010474
2020497+23 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Congerville between 2012 and 2014, burning about 48 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesI742
20 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARTINS
11 April 2014Debris and open burning40 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-63
21 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-45
13 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMONTGOMERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodford County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Congerville: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Builta-Wenninger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ira Rokey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lakeview Realty PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Quast PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Timberline Pit Protable #2331Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Woodford County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Congerville in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCongerville$12,000Numerous 4 to 6-inch diameter tree branches were blown down in Congerville.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCongerville-Small tree branches were blown down.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Congerville-The tornado continued into Woodford County from McLean County. No damage was reported as the tornado moved across open fields. The tornado lifted 1.5 miles south southeast of Congerville.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCongerville-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs.
May 2000HailCongerville-Two squad cars in the El Paso area sustained damage from the hail. No injuries were reported.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Congerville-A tornado briefly touched down 2 SW of Congerville damaging one home and five outbuildings. The roof of a mobile home was blown off and several trees and power poles were blown over. No one was injured and no damage estimate was available.
December 2025HailCongerville-no account filed
June 2023HailCongerville-no account filed
June 2018HailCongerville-no account filed
June 2015HailCongerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodford 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mackinaw Dells1.5 miles13
Farmsville (historical)1.9 miles13
Bowling Green (historical)3.6 miles14
Goodfield3.8 miles14
Eureka8.1 miles14
Cruger9.2 miles14
Secor9.4 miles14
Kappa11.2 miles15

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 CongervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2339195The 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 406464. 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.

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.