Findlay, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Todds Point Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62534. The Survey maps it on the Findlay quadrangle. 664 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 676 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFindlay fell from 683 to 664 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 | 683 | |
| 2020 | 664 | -19 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1949 USGS Dalton City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Findlay quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Findlay in 2013, burning about 52 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 130073 |
| 27 November 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1300FIN |
| 11 October 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 101113 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Findlay in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Findlay | $225,000 | Downburst winds caused widespread damage in and around the town of Findlay. A marine storage facility on the west side of town had 16 aluminum doors blown in on the west side of the building. Numerous trees were damaged and several homes sustained minor roof damage. A large cell tower one mile east of Findlay was blown down. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Findlay | $60,000 | Several power poles were snapped off south of Findlay. |
| July 2008 | Lightning | Findlay | $20,000 | Lightning struck a grain elevator and started a fire in a nearby office building. There were no injuries. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Findlay | $15,000 | Pine trees were snapped and minor damage occurred to the roof of a house. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Findlay | - | A small outbuilding was flipped over and a pine tree was snapped. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Findlay | - | Several tree limbs were blown down and some siding was torn off a house. |
| February 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Findlay | - | A tornado briefly touched down in an open field 3.3 miles west-southwest of Findlay at 4:40 PM CST. The tornado dissipated at 4:41 PM CST with no damage reported. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Findlay | - | Hail to one inch in diameter accumulated to at least an inch deep in and around Findlay. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Findlay | - | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a machine shed and an apple tree. Also, a garage was pushed off of its foundation. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Findlay | - | A waterspout briefly touched down on the north end of Lake Shelbyville, east of Findlay. No injuries or damage were reported. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Findlay | - | Several trees and numerous tree limbs were blown down throughout the county. In Findlay, a barn built in the 1800s collapsed. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Findlay | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field 3 miles north of Findlay. No injuries or damage were reported. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Findlay | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees. Also, the winds destroyed a porch roof and caused damage to the roof of a home two miles southeast of Findlay. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Findlay | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Findlay | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Findlay | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Findlay | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Findlay | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duvall | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Todds Point | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Rennerville | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Westervelt | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Lithia | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Yantisville | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Prairie Home | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Middlesworth | 7.9 miles | 14 |
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 Findlay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672096 | 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 408374. 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.





