De Land, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Goose Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61839. The Survey maps it on the Weldon East quadrangle. 447 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 700 feet above sea level.

De Land within Piatt County

Population over time

2 figures

De Land grew from 446 to 447 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	446
2020	447	+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1937 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Monticello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Weldon East quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Champaign quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000

In the county-history sources

1,299 words on this township

History of Piatt County; Together with a Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the Present Time, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Goose Creek Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

De Land, - This township has but one town, which is situated on the Havana Branch railroad, about four miles from the eastern boundary line of the township. This is an enterprising place of over 300 inhabitants. It has already made a rapid growth and bids fair to keep on growing. According to the surveyor's certificate, De Land was laid out for Thomas E. Bondurant on the 23d and 25th days of April, and the 20th and 21st days of May, 1873, and is situated on the JST.W. i Sec. 9, T. 19 K, R 5 E. 3d P. M.

Passage source: History of Piatt County; Together with a Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the Present Time, published 1883.

According to Thomas Bondurant, S. C. Langdon owned the first dwelling house in De Land. Mr. Langdon was the first station agent, and was the first postmaster, which position he still holds. Richard Tilson says he moved the first dwelling into De Land. In the fall of 1873 R. B. Moody and John Yail built a store where the latter had had the first store of the place. Dr. J. A. Davis was the first physician in the town, Dr. H. M. Harrison was next, and then Dr. Wood came. Dr. William T. Ward was the first neighborhood physician, but he never lived in the town. Dr. J. R. Gardiner WPS in the place for a short time.

Passage source: History of Piatt County; Together with a Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the Present Time, published 1883.

De Land of to-day contains two churches, a school building, and about fifteen business firms. Quite a number of new residences have been erected the past year, and Moody & Rodman have recently put up an elevator having a capacity for 30,000 bushels of grain. T. E. Bondurant is erecting a commodious dwelling, which bids fair to be the finest residence of the place. -

Passage source: History of Piatt County; Together with a Brief History of Illinois from the Discovery of the Upper Mississippi to the Present Time, published 1883.

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 Goose Creek Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names De Land in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	De Land	-	Power poles were snapped 2 miles south of DeLand.
June 2021	Tornado (EFU)	De Land	-	A tornado touched down in an open field about 4.8 miles north-northeast of Cisco at 6:20 PM CDT. The tornado quickly dissipated by 6:22 PM CDT. No damage was reported.
May 2009	Flash Flood	De Land	-	Heavy rain of 1.00 to 1.50 inches fell within one hour, on already saturated ground, across central Piatt County. This produced extensive flash flooding, particularly on rural roads and on streets in the city of Monticello.
July 2006	Flash Flood	De Land	-	Water was flowing across Main Street.

Every storm recorded in Piatt 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
Combs	1.9 miles	14
Lodge	4.7 miles	14
Galesville	5.2 miles	14
Amenia	7.0 miles	14
White Heath	7.5 miles	14
Monticello	7.6 miles	14
Centerville	7.9 miles	18
Harris	8.1 miles	14

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 De Land	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672422	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 407015. 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.