BlockEdgewood, Illinois
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Mason Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62426. The Survey maps it on the Edgewood quadrangle. 398 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 574 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEdgewood fell from 440 to 398 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 | 440 | |
| 2020 | 398 | -42 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1956 USGS Edgewood quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Edgewood quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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 Edgewood: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
12 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewood in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2026 | Tornado (EF0) | Edgewood | $20,000 | A tornado developed near Scooter Drive in Clay County. It tracked northeast, moving into Effingham County and tracking east of Edgewood. It dissipated near the intersection of East 100th Avenue and County Road 880. The maximum intensity of this tornado was EF-0, with damage limited to tree branches. The total duration of this tornado was four minutes, one minute in Clay County and three minutes in Effingham County. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | $15,000 | A semi was blown over on I-57 at Edgewood. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | - | A large tree and a power line were blown down. |
| May 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Edgewood | - | A tornado touched down in a field about 0.9 miles north of Edgewood near mile marker 145 on I-57 at 3:30 PM CDT. The tornado quickly dissipated by 3:31 PM CDT. No damage occurred. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | - | Numerous small tree branches were blown down. |
| April 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Edgewood | - | A tornado crossed from the National Weather Service St. Louis County Warning Area (CWA) in eastern Fayette County into Effingham County approximately 8 miles west-northwest of Edgewood at 4:34 PM CDT. The tornado destroyed 5 outbuildings, a large grain bin, and a garage about one-half mile east-northeast of where it entered southwest Effingham County. It also damaged the windows of a home and an automobile. As the tornado continued, it damaged three farmsteads... where it damaged or destroyed six additional outbuildings, a camper, an unoccupied trailer, and numerous trees. The tornado dissipated in a forested area about 3.4 miles northwest of Mason at 4:41 PM CDT. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgewood | - | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Edgewood | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Edgewood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol (historical) | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Mason | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Gilmore | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Flemingsburg (historical) | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Hill | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Watson | 8.7 miles | 15 | |
| Southmore Heights | 9.9 miles | 15 | |
| East Meadows | 10.6 miles | 15 |
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 Edgewood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2221974 | 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 407777. 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.