Germantown, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Germantown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62245. The Survey maps it on the Breese quadrangle. 1,324 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Germantown within Clinton County

Population over time

2 figures

Germantown grew from 1,269 to 1,324 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	1,269
2020	1,324	+55 (+4%)

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.

1906 USGS Breese quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Breese quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Breese quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Germantown in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado. 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
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	$500	Numerous large trees were blown down.
April 2026	Tornado (EF1)	Germantown	-	A tornado developed just southwest of Germantown where it damaged part of the roof of an outbuilding. In Germantown, the tornado produced mostly tree damage. However, it did destroy the roof of one manufactured home and it completely destroyed another. From there, it damaged mostly trees until it reached just south of Beckemeyer. Here, the tornado destroyed one outbuilding and flipped another. The tornado produced more tree damage before dissipating just south of Carlyle.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees around town. A couple of the trees were blown onto Illinois Route 161 on south side of town.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs from Germantown to Bartelso. A few of the tree limbs fell onto cars causing minor damage.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and numerous tree limbs in Germantown and just east of Beckemeyer. One of the trees fell onto an occupied vehicle in Germantown causing major damage. Fortunately, the driver was not injured. A small porch roof on a mobile home in Germantown was lifted up over the mobile home and landed against the neighboring mobile home. Also, several power lines were blown down east of Beckemeyer on Pipeline Road.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	Several trees were blown down, blocking Illinois Route 161 southeast of Germantown.
July 2006	Tornado (F1)	Germantown	-	A tornado formed west of Germantown and totally destroyed a large poultry building and damaged two other buildings. Debris from the poultry building was thrown 1/2 mile to the east. The tornado also severed the tops of several trees in the south part of Germantown.
July 2004	Hail	Germantown	-	Storm spotters reported nickel size hail south of Germantown.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Germantown	-	A tornado caused brief damage to a farmstead over south-central Clinton County Illinois. The tornado occurred 4 miles south of Germantown Illinois in the Santa Fe flood plain along and north of the Kaskaskia River. A barn, machine shed, and silo sustained the greatest degree of damage while there was minor damage to the farm home. Debris from the farmstead was thrown from 200 yards to 1.4 mile northeast. This tornado occurred approximately 2.0 miles to the east-northeast of another tornado that hit the area on April 4, 2003.
May 2000	Hail	Germantown	-	Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	The County Sheriff reported trees and power lines down along Route 161 in the Germantown area.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	County sheriff reported trees down on the east side of town.
April 2012	Hail	Germantown	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Germantown	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Germantown	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Germantown	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Germantown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Breese	4.0 miles	11
Albers	4.0 miles	11
Bartelso	4.0 miles	10
Snearlyville	4.5 miles	10
Aviston	5.2 miles	11
Damiansville	5.2 miles	11
Beckemeyer	6.5 miles	10
Frogtown	7.0 miles	10

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 Germantown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2321885	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 408974. 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.