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Farmer City, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Santa Anna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61842. It stands on Trenkle Slough. The Survey maps it on the Farmer City South quadrangle. 1,828 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Farmer City within De Witt County

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.

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmer City in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 16 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFarmer City$40,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in Farmer City.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFarmer City$22,000Numerous trees were blown down in Farmer City. A tree limb fell onto a car, shattering the windshield.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindFarmer City$15,000Power lines were blown down in Farmer City.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFarmer City$12,000A tree was blown onto a house.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindFarmer City$2,000A large tree limb and a non-power wire were blown down in Farmer City.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFarmer City$1,500A tree was blown down in Farmer City.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-A 1-foot diameter tree limb was blown down.
April 2023HailFarmer City-Penny sized hail occurred in Farmer City. This report was relayed by broadcast media.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-Widespread tree damage occurred across Farmer City. Several trees were blown down onto houses and garages, and a few homes had shingles stripped off the roofs.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-Shingles were damaged on a hotel.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-A large tree was blown down onto Route 54 at Richardson Street in Farmer City.
July 2016Flash FloodFarmer City-A street in the town of Farmer City became flooded and impassible after a slow-moving thunderstorm dropped over 2 inches of rain in just 30 minutes.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-Numerous tree branches were blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree across IL Route 54 between Farmer City and Clinton.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-Several power lines and large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-Several trees were blown down south of town.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree onto power lines 2 miles south of Farmer City. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.
January 2023HailFarmer City-no account filed
June 2023HailFarmer City-no account filed
May 2014HailFarmer City-no account filed
June 2009HailFarmer City-no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindFarmer City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in De Witt 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
Watkins3.2 miles12
Parnell4.4 miles14
Fullerton5.9 miles14
De Witt8.7 miles13
Solomon9.6 miles13
Weldon10.0 miles14
Birkbeck12.8 miles13
Lane14.0 miles12

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 Farmer CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575617The 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 408277. 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.