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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.

Fisher within Champaign County

Population over time

2 figures

Fisher 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,881
20202,062+181 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

In the county-history sources

335 words on this township

The 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 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFisher$20,000Numerous trees and tree limbs down across Fisher.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindFisher$18,000Three power poles were blown down north of Fisher.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFisher$15,000Several trees and power lines blown down near Fisher.
July 2021Tornado (EF0)Fisher$12,000A 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 2011LightningFisher$10,000An 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 2013Thunderstorm WindFisher$6,000Power lines were blown down in Fisher.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFisher$1,000A large tree was blown down in Fisher.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFisher$1,000A 4-foot diameter cottonwood tree was snapped off at the base.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFisher-A few trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFisher-A member of the media estimated a wind gust of 60mph.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFisher-A barn door was blown off along Route 47 northwest of Fisher.
June 2021Tornado (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 2019Thunderstorm WindFisher-A large tree branch was blown onto a house in Fisher.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFisher-Several trees and power lines were blown down in Fisher.
March 2026HailFisher-no account filed
March 2026HailFisher-no account filed
May 2025HailFisher-no account filed
May 2025HailFisher-no account filed
May 2019HailFisher-no account filed
May 2018HailFisher-no account filed
April 2016HailFisher-no account filed
April 2015HailFisher-no account filed
June 2013HailFisher-no account filed
June 2008HailFisher-no account filed
March 2006HailFisher-no account filed
April 2003HailFisher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Champaign 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
Dewey3.6 miles14
Dickerson3.8 miles14
Foosland5.2 miles14
Lotus5.6 miles14
Tomlinson6.2 miles16
Prospect7.3 miles16
Lake of the Woods7.5 miles21
Mahomet8.7 miles19

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 FisherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2494526The 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.