Dana, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Groveland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61321. The Survey maps it on the Dana quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDana grew from 159 to 162 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 | 159 | |
| 2020 | 162 | +3 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1958 USGS Flanagan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Dana quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1999 USGS Dana quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
964 words on this townshipHistory of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Groveland Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
ried Orvilla Kenyon, and has seven children. He was a good soldier, and is Police Magistrate in the village of Dana, The third was Lewis W. Martin, from Indiana ; he made an improvement on Sec. 10; sold to Alva Winans and went to Nebraska, Geo. W. Gray located and lives on &. 11 in 1856, and raised a large family, The fifth settler was William Martin; he pre-empted the northeast quarter Section 25th. An Englishman by birth, he enlisted in the 334 Regiment, and died on his way home from the army; 2 bachelor, he left no relatives but a sister, Mrs. Avna Swift of Bloomington. Nelson Cooper, from Maryland, a carpenter by trade, settled on 8. 17. He enlisted in the 104th Regiment. His wife was Sarah M. Jacobson, daughter of John Jacobson. He is the present Supervisor of the town. John Jacobson, from Germany to Ohio, was a magistrate there; was Supervisor here for several years, and moved to Nebraska in 1869.
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 Groveland Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dana between 2010 and 2014, burning about 10 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 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | WEEKS |
| 6 October 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1400174 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dana in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2010: 3 hail, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dana | $1,000 | Utility poles were blown down blocking N 2nd Road near E 10th Street. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dana | $1,000 | A traffic signal was blown down on 11th street. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Dana | - | Storms produced grape-size hail and winds blew down a metal building. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Dana | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dana | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dana | - | 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.
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 Dana | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2155849 | 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 406937. 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.







