BlockDanforth, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Danforth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60930. The Survey maps it on the Gilman quadrangle. 594 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDanforth fell from 604 to 594 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 | 604 | |
| 2020 | 594 | -10 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1944 USGS Gilman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Gilman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Gilman quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
7 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Danforth in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danforth | - | A box truck was blown over on Interstate 57 near mile marker 290. No injuries were reported. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danforth | - | A semi truck was overturned on Interstate 57 near mile marker 287. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danforth | - | A side of a barn and part of a roof were blown off. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Danforth | - | A semi was overturned on Interstate 57, about two miles north of Gilman. |
| May 2012 | Flood | Danforth | - | Old US Highway 45 was covered with water and remained as such at least into the afternoon. Numerous fields in the area were also flooded. |
| July 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Danforth | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Danforth | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilman | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Ashkum | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Leonard | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| La Hogue | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Crescent City | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Onarga | 7.4 miles | 13 | |
| Clifton | 8.3 miles | 12 | |
| Ridgeville | 8.8 miles | 13 |
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 Danforth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1918026 | 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 406939. 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.
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.