Glasford, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Timber Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61533. The Survey maps it on the Glasford quadrangle. 866 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGlasford fell from 1,022 to 866 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 | 1,022 | |
| 2020 | 866 | -156 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 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.
- 1930 USGS Glasford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Glasford quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Glasford quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1996 USGS Glasford quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,116 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Timber 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 Timber Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
3 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Glasford between 2012 and 2018, 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | KILLIAN |
| 17 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2018235 |
| 23 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2018-76 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Glasford: 1 producer. All of them 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elzie Hurley Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasford in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasford | $2,000 | A 12-inch diameter tree was blown down in Glasford. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Glasford | - | Rainfall amounts of 2.00 to 3.00, on top of waterlogged ground, were reported during the early evening of June 28th. This resulted in the flooding of rural roads near the Fulton County line. Parts of U.S. Highway 24 were also impassable during the late evening. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasford | - | Numerous trees and tree branches were blown down in Glasford, including one tree that fell onto a house. In addition, a shed was blown off its foundation on Part Street. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasford | - | Siding was blown off a church. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasford | - | 2 foot diameter tree blown down and some shingles blown off a roof. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Glasford | - | Several large tree limbs were also blown down in Glasford. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glasford | - | Several tree limbs and power lines were blown down, as well as a 90 year old barn near Glasford. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Glasford | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Glasford | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Glasford | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Glasford | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Glasford | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Glasford | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Glasford | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Glasford | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster | 1.4 miles | 15 | |
| Kingston Mines | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Mapleton | 4.3 miles | 18 | |
| Lake Camelot | 5.5 miles | 19 | |
| Smithville | 6.1 miles | 16 | |
| Hollis | 7.8 miles | 18 | |
| Tuscarora | 8.1 miles | 18 | |
| Eden | 8.1 miles | 16 |
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 Glasford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1323094 | 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 409050. 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.
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.









