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Easton, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1933 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sherman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62633. The Survey maps it on the Easton quadrangle. 312 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Easton within Mason County

Population over time

2 figures

Easton fell from 321 to 312 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.

YearPeople Change
2010321
2020312-9 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Easton between 2009 and 2015, burning about 7 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 burning1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 October 2015Other causesunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesRESIDENCE
2 January 2009Debris and open burning7.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBENDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Easton in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Easton$150,000A tornado touched down 2.2 miles north-northwest of Easton at 11:52 PM CST. The tornado tracked northeastward, hitting a homestead 2.5 miles north of Easton where a machine shed was severely damaged, with most of its roof removed and part of the north wall bowed out. From here to the end of the track, most of the damage was to power poles or overturned irrigation rigs: however, a farm along County Road 2930E received damage as well. A grain silo had half its peaked roof cave in, and part of a machine shed had a couple smaller wall pieces blown out. The tornado dissipated 5.5 miles southeast of Forest City at 11:57 PM CST.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEaston$60,000Several trees were blown down in Easton. One tree sliced through a mobile home.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEaston$25,000Numerous power lines were blown down in Easton.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindEaston-Thunderstorm winds blew 2 semi's off the road at the intersection of Routes 136 and 10. Neither of the driver's sustained any injuries.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindEaston-Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees. No injuries were reported.
March 2026HailEaston-no account filed
March 2024HailEaston-no account filed
May 2000HailEaston-no account filed
May 1999HailEaston-no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F1)Easton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Teheran2.4 miles13
Biggs3.3 miles13
Poplar City5.3 miles13
Mason City7.9 miles14
Bishop8.0 miles14
Peterville8.1 miles13
Topeka8.2 miles14
Forest City9.5 miles14

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 EastonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672063The 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 407717. 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.