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Flanagan, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Nebraska Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61740. The Survey maps it on the Flanagan North quadrangle. 1,010 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 670 feet above sea level.

Flanagan within Livingston County

Population over time

2 figures

Flanagan fell from 1,110 to 1,010 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
20101,110
20201,010-100 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Flanagan in 2008, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined1

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
17 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2008-33

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flanagan in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 tornado, 2 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 2008Tornado (EF1)Flanagan$40,000A tornado touched down in Waldo Township, south of 1100 North, between 100 East and 200 East. A house suffered roof damage near this location. A small agriculture building was blown around a larger agricultural machine shed and destroyed. The larger machine shed suffered some roof damage. Trees and a child's play set were also damaged. Tree damage was reported south of 1200 North between 300 East and 400 East. Some small agricultural buildings were destroyed south of 1300 North, just east of 400 East.
April 2026Flash FloodFlanagan-Multiple county roads were flooded near N 400 E Road south of Flanagan with multiple cars stuck in flood waters.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindFlanagan-An Ambient Weather station recorded a 65 mph gust near Gridley.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFlanagan-A large farm building suffered a partial collapse of walls and a large section of roofing material.
July 2024Tornado (EF0)Flanagan-A tornado with estimated peak winds of 85 mph touched down in Woodford County and then crossed into Livingston County just north of E 1900 North Road. Damage in Livingston County consisted of utility poles leaning and crop damage. The tornado ended just west of Mole Creek.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFlanagan-Trees and corn were blown down near Flanagan. A photo showed a metal radio tower that was bent, approximately 25 feet above ground.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFlanagan-Tree limbs were blown down.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindFlanagan-Power lines were blown down at the intersection of County Roads 1000 N and 400 E.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindFlanagan-A large metal outbuilding collapsed.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindFlanagan-Large tree limbs were blown down.
July 2020FloodFlanagan-Water was reported over various intersections along Route 116 near and west of Flanagan with barricades up.
May 2018Funnel CloudFlanagan-A funnel cloud was observed near the Woodford and Livingston County line, west of Flanagan.
April 2013Flash FloodFlanagan-Illinois Route 18 was under water just north of Illinois Route 17. The viaduct on Illinois Route 23 south of Streator was flooded. Dwight received 3.67 inches of rainfall.
April 2006Tornado (F0)Flanagan-A F0 tornado touched down about 3 miles west of Gridley in Mclean County, crossed into Livingston County about 9.5 miles southwest of Flanagan, then dissipated about 8.0 miles southwest of Flanagan. No damage or injuries were reported.
March 2026HailFlanagan-no account filed
August 2012HailFlanagan-no account filed
April 2006HailFlanagan-no account filed
May 2000HailFlanagan-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindFlanagan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Graymont4.5 miles13
Waldo5.7 miles13
Rooks Creek8.5 miles15
Long Point8.9 miles11
Cornell10.4 miles15
Ocoya10.7 miles15
Rowe10.8 miles15
Ancona11.2 miles11

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 FlanaganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1929330The 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 408428. 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.