Fisher, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61843. It stands on Owl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fisher quadrangle. 2,062 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFisher grew from 1,881 to 2,062 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 | 1,881 | |
| 2020 | 2,062 | +181 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1928 USGS Gibson City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Gibson City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Fisher quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Champaign quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
In the county-history sources
335 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Brown Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Brown Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Storms near this place
26 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fisher in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $20,000 | Numerous trees and tree limbs down across Fisher. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $18,000 | Three power poles were blown down north of Fisher. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $15,000 | Several trees and power lines blown down near Fisher. |
| July 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Fisher | $12,000 | A tornado touched down 2.6 miles northwest of Fisher at 12:30 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward damaging a machine shed. The south wall of the shed was blown in and the roof was peeled away and blown into an adjacent corn field. The tornado dissipated just east of Illinois Route 47 about 2.7 miles east-southeast of Foosland at 12:35 PM CDT. |
| August 2011 | Lightning | Fisher | $10,000 | An auto body shop in the town of Fisher was struck by lightning, which ignited a fire. The building sustained minor damage. There was one person in the building, but they escaped without injury. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $6,000 | Power lines were blown down in Fisher. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $1,000 | A large tree was blown down in Fisher. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | $1,000 | A 4-foot diameter cottonwood tree was snapped off at the base. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | - | A few trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | - | A member of the media estimated a wind gust of 60mph. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | - | A barn door was blown off along Route 47 northwest of Fisher. |
| June 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Fisher | - | A tornado touched down in an open field about 2.5 miles south-southeast of Fisher at 5:27 PM CDT. The tornado quickly dissipated by 5:28 PM CDT. No damage was reported. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | - | A large tree branch was blown onto a house in Fisher. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fisher | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down in Fisher. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Fisher | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Fisher | - | 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.
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 Fisher | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2494526 | 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 408396. 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.







