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Glasgow, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Glasgow precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62694. The Survey maps it on the Alsey quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Glasgow within Scott County

Population over time

2 figures

Glasgow fell from 141 to 113 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
2010141
2020113-28 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glasgow: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Little Sandy PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shafer Clay PitClayPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Thomas QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasgow in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGlasgow$3,000A small shed was blown over.
June 2025Tornado (EFU)Glasgow-Sentinel satellite data showed a narrow tornado touched down in a farm field north of Montezuma Road and east of county road 600E. It moved northeast for approximately one mile, producing crop damage. The tornado lifted before reaching Big Swan Road. No structures or tree damage was noted, so this tornado was assigned a rating of EF-U.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGlasgow-A trained spotter estimated a wind gust of 65mph.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGlasgow-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees, power lines and tree limbs from west of Glasgow to the Winchester area. Several large trees, over 3 feet wide, were blown down on the east side of the Illinois River near Montezuma Landing. A couple of the fallen trees damaged some unoccupied camping trailers.
May 2003HailGlasgow-Large hail broke several windows in Manchester.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindGlasgow-Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn and damaged a machine shed on the west side of Glasgow.
April 2002Flash FloodGlasgow-The Glasgow Blacktop and Lower Alsey roads were flooded for a time due to the heavy rains.
May 2002Flash FloodGlasgow-Several rural roads near Glasgow were flooded including the Glasgow Blacktop.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Glasgow-This tornado formed on the leading edge of a bow echo over extreme eastern portions of Pike County (WFO St. Louis CWA) just north of Bedford, then crossed the Illinois River into Scott County (WFO Central Illinois CWA). It moved east northeast but little damage was found in the river bottoms area. Once the tornado crossed the bluffs 2.3 miles west southwest of Glasgow, scattered damage was found (numerous trees blown over) before it lifted and dissipated 2 miles west southwest of Glasgow.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGlasgow-Another two mile wide swath of damage from a seperate storm moving across the extreme southern portions of Scott County extended from 2.5 miles southwest of Glasgow to just south of Glasgow to a mile south of Alsey to 2 miles northeast of Manchester, then into southern Morgan County. Numerous trees, tree limbs, power poles, and power lines were blown down. One tree fell onto a house in Glasgow causing major damage but no injuries. In Alsey, a tree fell onto an enclosed porch destroying it. Just north of Manchester several windows were blown out of a house and a shed was destroyed.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindGlasgow-A severe thunderstorm quickly moved northeast across Scott County. Numerous power poles in the Glasgow area were blown down. Five miles north of Alsey several trees were blown down, a shed was destroyed, and two homes sustained minor damage. One mile south of Winchester, several buildings sustained minor damage. No injuries were reported.
April 2017HailGlasgow-no account filed
April 2011HailGlasgow-no account filed
May 2010HailGlasgow-no account filed
April 2002HailGlasgow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Alsey2.5 miles12
Bridgeport (historical)5.5 miles12
Winchester5.6 miles12
Manchester7.9 miles12
Bloomfield8.1 miles13
Riggston10.4 miles12
Oxville11.5 miles13
Exeter11.8 miles12

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 GlasgowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671888The 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 409051. 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.