Creston, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Dement Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61068. The Survey maps it on the Creston quadrangle. 627 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Creston within Ogle County

Population over time

2 figures

Creston fell from 662 to 627 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	662
2020	627	-35 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1934 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Creston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

8,154 words on this township

The History of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Etc, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Dement Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

General Store and Postmaster ; Creston. Born in Washington Co., N. Y., Oct. 29, 1840 ; came to Ogle County in 1862, and engaged in clerking for W. P. Bump at Rochelle, also for M. D. Hathaway ; in 1865 Mr. A. came to Creston and engaged in present business ; in June, 1865, Mr. A. married. Jennie M. Fulton ; she was born in Rockford, 111., Oct. 18, 1845; died Jan. 1, 1877, and buried at Creston, 111. They have three children - Emma L., born in Battle Creek, Mich. ; Robert F., Creston, 111. ; Katy L., Creston, 111. Mr. A. was appointed Postmaster ^at Creston in 1871, and is at present in the same office in connection with his business.

Passage source: The History of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Etc, published 1878.

AJfDERSON ERIK, Farmer, Sec. 15 ; P. O. Creston; born in Stavanger, Norway, Dec. 24, 1848 ; came to Ogle County in 1871, and engaged in farming ; owns 40 acres of land ; married April, 1869, Rachel Johnson; she was born in same place in 1847. They have three children - Hank, born July, 1871 ; Johnny, April, 1874 ; John Cicerius, Aug. 27, 1876 ; belong to the Lutheran Church, and in politics is Republican.

ALMER GEO. H. Physician and Surgeon ; Creston ; born in De Kalb Co., HI. Jan. 3, 1850 ; commenced studying medicine in 1865, and continued it up to 1868, then entered Rush Medical College for three terms, and graduated in 1870, when he located in Creston, and has been a resident ever since ; married Hattie Smith ; she was born in Creston ; they have had three children (two living and one dead) - Grace A., born at Creston; Mestie A. at Creston ; George, June 26, 1873 died Oct. 30, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. A are members of the Methodist Church since Dr. Aumer has resided in Creston, there have been several physicians located here, but had all to give up, as Dr. Aumer has the largest practice of any physician in Ogle County.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Dement Township - it names this place 44 more 44 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Creston: 1 producer, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Elmhurst-Mccarthy Joint	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Atwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Rochelle Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Ogle County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creston in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2010	Flash Flood	Creston	$268,000	Heavy rain fell across Ogle County on July 23rd and July 24th. The heaviest rains fell during the early morning hours of July 24th. Forreston reported a storm total rainfall of 9.67 inches for both days. Numerous roads and basements were flooded. Several creeks and rivers overflowed their banks, causing additional flooding. A church near Brookville sustained major water damage after the Elkhorn Creek overflowed its banks.
April 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Creston	$50,000	Barns were destroyed and a roof was taken off a cattle shelter near Woodlawn and Fairview.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Creston	$10,000	In the town of Creston, two large trees were blown down and three telephone poles were leaning. Corn in the area was flattened. A metal barn was blown over halfway between Malta and Creston on the north side of Route 38.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Creston	-	Multiple power poles were downed or snapped east of Rochelle. Tree damage was reported around the general area as well.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Creston	-	A two foot diameter tree was snapped at the trunk in a cemetery.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Creston	-	A tree was blown down on Twombly Road, one quarter mile from Woodlawn Road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Creston	-	Large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Creston	-	A five inch diameter tree limb was snapped at Woodlawn and North Street.
May 2011	Flood	Creston	-	Water was reported on roads, and ditches were full from heavy rain.
July 2010	Flood	Creston	-	After heavy rain and flash flooding during the early morning hours of July 24th, flooding continued through the evening hours across parts of Ogle County. By late morning, significant flooding was reported along Killbuck Creek.
July 2000	Tornado (F0)	Creston	-	There were several reports of funnel clouds relayed through the county sherrif. The funnels were associated with an area of developing showers and thunderstorms in a relatively cool unstable airmass. A small tornado touched down briefly at a farm and moved southeast producing a damage path about 1/2 mile long and up to 150 feet wide. It damaged the roof and doors of a barn, damaged a machine shed and damaged trees. The siding was peeled off another nearby farm house. Trees were also damaged.

Every storm recorded in Ogle 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
Hillcrest	5.5 miles	11
Rochelle	5.5 miles	11
Askvig Addition	5.9 miles	11
Southgate	5.9 miles	11
Highland Estates	7.8 miles	11
Briarwood	8.0 miles	11
Ramsey Acres	8.2 miles	11
Flagg Center	8.4 miles	11

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 Creston	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2659625	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 406779. 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.