BlockDonovan, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60931. The Survey maps it on the Donovan quadrangle. 251 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDonovan fell from 304 to 251 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 | 304 | |
| 2020 | 251 | -53 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1935 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Donovan quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Donovan: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kendall Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Donovan in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Donovan | - | A tree was blown down near the intersection of E 2880 North Road and N 3100 East Road. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Donovan | - | A couple of trees were blown down on the outskirts of town. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Donovan | - | Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Donovan | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hooper | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Iroquois | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| North Hooper | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Beaverville | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Pittwood | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Martinton | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Freedville | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Webster | 7.6 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 Donovan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671907 | 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 407312. 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.