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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.

Findlay within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Findlay 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.

YearPeople Change
2010683
2020664-19 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

3 since 2013

Regional 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
19 August 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources130073
27 November 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1300FIN
11 October 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources101113

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFindlay$225,000Downburst 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 2013Thunderstorm WindFindlay$60,000Several power poles were snapped off south of Findlay.
July 2008LightningFindlay$20,000Lightning struck a grain elevator and started a fire in a nearby office building. There were no injuries.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindFindlay$15,000Pine trees were snapped and minor damage occurred to the roof of a house.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindFindlay-A small outbuilding was flipped over and a pine tree was snapped.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFindlay-Several tree limbs were blown down and some siding was torn off a house.
February 2014Tornado (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 2008HailFindlay-Hail to one inch in diameter accumulated to at least an inch deep in and around Findlay.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindFindlay-Thunderstorm winds destroyed a machine shed and an apple tree. Also, a garage was pushed off of its foundation.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Findlay-A waterspout briefly touched down on the north end of Lake Shelbyville, east of Findlay. No injuries or damage were reported.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindFindlay-Several trees and numerous tree limbs were blown down throughout the county. In Findlay, a barn built in the 1800s collapsed.
April 1998Tornado (F0)Findlay-A tornado briefly touched down in a field 3 miles north of Findlay. No injuries or damage were reported.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFindlay-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 2026HailFindlay-no account filed
May 2003HailFindlay-no account filed
April 2002HailFindlay-no account filed
May 2002HailFindlay-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindFindlay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Duvall3.6 miles14
Todds Point3.8 miles11
Rennerville5.4 miles14
Westervelt6.5 miles14
Lithia6.8 miles14
Yantisville6.9 miles11
Prairie Home7.8 miles11
Middlesworth7.9 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 FindlayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672096The 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.