BlockFoosland, 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 61845. The Survey maps it on the Foosland quadrangle. 75 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresFoosland fell from 101 to 75 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 | 101 | |
| 2020 | 75 | -26 (-26%) |
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
- 1984 USGS Foosland quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Champaign quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
In the county-history sources
335 words on this townshipEarly History and Pioneers of Champaign County : Illustrated by One Hundred and Fifteen Superb Engravings by Melville : Containing Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers, the Early History of the County Obtained from the Most Reliable Sources and Many Graphic Scenes and Incidents from the Bright and Shady Sides of Pioneer Life, published 1891 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Brown Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Brown Township - 335 words.
Storms near this place
11 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foosland in 11 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Foosland | $47,000,000 | Periods of thunderstorms with heavy rainfall produced rain rates of 1 to 2.5 inches for at least two hours from 0630-0830 LST in northwest and central Champaign County - including the cities of Champaign and Mahomet/Lake of the Woods. The highest rain totals ranged between 6.00 to 7.00 inches from Mahomet to the village of Foosland. Nearly all rural roads in northwest Champaign County were flooded with at least a foot of water. Illinois Route 47 from Gibson City to Mahomet, U.S. Highway 150 from Mansfield to Mahomet, and U.S. Highway 136 near Fisher were closed due to flooding. Parts of Interstate 74 from milepost 168 to 173 were impassable. Numerous streets and viaducts in Mahomet and Champaign were also impassable. Many homes in Mahomet and Champaign also had significant basement flooding. Estimated flood damages in Champaign County were around $47 Million. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foosland | $65,000 | Six power poles were blown down. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foosland | $50,000 | Several power poles were leaning over near Foosland due to strong thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foosland | $10,000 | A power line was blown down in Foosland. As the line fell, it pulled an electrical box off an old brick wall causing the wall to partially collapse. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foosland | - | A tree was blown onto powerlines. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Foosland | - | Thunderstorms with rainfall rates of 1.00 to 1.50 per hour for nearly three hours produced a total of 4.00 to 7.00 of rain in northern and east central Champaign County. Many roads were impassable in rural areas north of U.S. Highway 136 and along and north of I-74 from Urbana to Ogden. |
| July 2014 | Flood | Foosland | - | Periods of thunderstorms with heavy rainfall produced rain rates of 1 to 2.5 inches for at least two hours from 0630-0830 LST in northwest and central Champaign County - including the cities of Champaign and Mahomet/Lake of the Woods. The highest rain totals ranged between 6.00 to 7.00 inches from Mahomet to the village of Foosland. Nearly all rural roads in northwest Champaign County were flooded with at least a foot of water. Illinois Route 47 from Gibson City to Mahomet, U.S. Highway 150 from Mansfield to Mahomet, and U.S. Highway 136 near Fisher were closed due to flooding. Parts of Interstate 74 from milepost 168 to 173 were impassable. Numerous streets and viaducts in Mahomet and Champaign were also impassable. Many homes in Mahomet and Champaign also had significant basement flooding. Estimated flood damages in Champaign County were around $47 Million. Periods of additional rainfall during the early afternoon kept many roads closed through the late evening hours. |
| February 2014 | Flash Flood | Foosland | - | Rainfall of 0.50 to 1.00 combined with 2 of snow depth and a frozen ground to produce flash flooding across most of Champaign County. Many streets in Champaign, Urbana, Sydney and Mahomet were flooded and most rural roads were impassable. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Foosland | - | Widespread street flooding was reported in Champaign, with an estimated 8 inches of water covering Neil Street near the WCIA TV studios. In addition, several streets in the villages of Savoy and Mahomet had water running across them. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Foosland | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Foosland | - | 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 Foosland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2461066 | 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 408488. 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.