BlockDewey, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1990. It stands in East Bend Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61840. The Survey maps it on the Fisher quadrangle. 105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1928 USGS Gibson City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Gibson City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Fisher quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Champaign quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
In the county-history sources
180 words on this townshipEarly History and Pioneers of Champaign County : Illustrated by One Hundred and Fifteen Superb Engravings by Melville : Containing Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, the Early History of the County Obtained from the Most Reliable Sources and Many Graphic Scenes and Incidents from the Bright and Shady Sides of Pioneer Life, published 1891 names this settlement in its chapter on East Bend Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The H., R & E. R. R. runs through the south part. The principal station is Dewey, about 100 inhabitants, mostly German. In the town are three stores, besides dne large implement warehouse, one blacksmith shop, one church, German Lutheran, school house. mill, and an extensive business is done in grain and produce. The principal operators are E. C Sale. John Heineman and J. H. Linebarger.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
6 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dewey in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dewey | $12,000 | A power pole was blown down onto County Road 3800N, causing a vehicle accident. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dewey | - | A power pole was blown down near Dewey Bank. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Dewey | - | A tornado touched down three miles south of Dewey at 7:39 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward, causing significant damage to a business on US-136 between Fisher and Rantoul. It struck a few vehicles as it crossed I-57 before dissipating just south of the intersection of County Road 3400 North and County Road 1800 East about 1 mile south-southeast of Ludlow at 7:48 PM CDT. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Dewey | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Dewey | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Dewey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomlinson | 2.6 miles | 16 | |
| Fisher | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Prospect | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Rantoul | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Thomasboro | 7.4 miles | 23 | |
| Dickerson | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Foosland | 8.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lake of the Woods | 9.0 miles | 21 |
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 Dewey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5268153 | 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 407166. 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.