BlockGermantown Hills, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Worth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61548. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Germantown Hills quadrangle. 3,412 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 803 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresGermantown Hills grew from 2,111 to 3,412 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2,111 | |
| 2010 | 3,438 | +1,327 (+63%) |
| 2020 | 3,412 | -26 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 20 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.
- 1893 USGS Metamora quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1937 USGS Metamora quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Metamora quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Germantown Hills quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1995 USGS Germantown Hills quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Germantown Hills: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Construction Materials Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Peoria Concrete Construction Co Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Powley Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Spring Bay Sand | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Germantown Hills in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown Hills | $20,000 | Numerous trees and large tree limbs were blown down in parts of western Woodford county from thunderstorm winds. In addition, an awning was damaged on a house in Roanoke. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown Hills | $8,000 | Trees were blown down onto Route 116 southwest of Germantown Hills. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown Hills | - | A large tree was uprooted facing to the southeast. |
| July 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Germantown Hills | - | The tornado began one mile southwest of Germantown Hills, on the northwest side of State Route 116, producing tree damage before moving southeast to the other side of the highway and causing more tree damage. The top of one pine tree was broken off and driven into the ground, about 30 yards northeast of the original tree. The tornado continued southeast into a heavily wooded area and dissipated. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown Hills | - | A two-foot diameter tree was blown down. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Germantown Hills | - | Numerous roads with water flowing across them in Germantown Hills and Metamora. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown Hills | - | Several trees blown down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown Hills | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down in Germantown Hills, Eureka and Minonk. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown Hills | - | Several trees were blown down around town. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Germantown Hills | - | A tornado touched down on the southeast side of Germantown Hills (Woodford County), damaging a house. It pushed the front door open and blew the back wall of the house out about 15 inches. As it traveled to the southeast the tornado blew down numerous trees and power lines, before moving into Tazewell County. No injuries were reported. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Germantown Hills | - | Numerous building and vehicles were damaged by the hail. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown Hills | - | A couple of trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Germantown Hills | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Germantown Hills | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Germantown Hills | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Germantown Hills | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Germantown Hills | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Germantown Hills | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Germantown Hills | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Germantown Hills | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Germantown Hills | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hickory Point | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| Oak Ridge | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Bay View Garden | 4.1 miles | 23 | |
| Spring Bay | 4.9 miles | 23 | |
| Metamora | 5.9 miles | 19 | |
| Cruger | 8.9 miles | 14 | |
| Cazenovia | 9.2 miles | 19 | |
| Eureka | 10.8 miles | 14 |
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 Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672339 | 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 408975. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.