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Cornell, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Amity Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61319. It stands on Ida Creek. The Survey maps it on the Northwest Pontiac quadrangle. 446 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 632 feet above sea level.

Cornell within Livingston County

Population over time

2 figures

Cornell fell from 467 to 446 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
2010467
2020446-21 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cornell: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Valley View Shale QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornell in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCornell$4,000Utility poles and power lines were blown down near 2500 North and 1400 East.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindCornell-Three power poles were blown over (not snapped) west of Cornell.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCornell-Several trees were snapped and several large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2022Heavy RainCornell-A private weather station measured 4.36 inches of rain in 75 minutes.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCornell-Trees were blown down and damage to barns was reported.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCornell-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down throughout and immediately north of Cornell.
August 2015Tornado (EF0)Cornell-A brief touchdown was reported by law enforcement. No damage occurred.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCornell-Scattered wind damage was reported across Cornell, including a few trees and utility poles that were blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCornell-Trees were blown down.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Cornell-Video from a storm spotter along with eyewitness accounts from the Dwight Fire Department confirmed a weak tornado about four miles east of Cornell. The tornado remained in an open field and no damage or injuries were reported.
August 2022HailCornell-no account filed
August 2022HailCornell-no account filed
May 2003HailCornell-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCornell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
New Michigan (historical)4.5 miles8
Manville4.9 miles11
Rowe5.1 miles15
Blackstone6.8 miles8
Smithdale7.0 miles11
Missal7.5 miles8
Rooks Creek7.7 miles15
Graymont8.1 miles13

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 CornellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2558420The 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 406593. 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.