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Greenup, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Greenup Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62428. It stands on Bell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenup quadrangle. 1,365 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Greenup within Cumberland County

On record in Greenup

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Greenup fell from 1,513 to 1,365 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
20101,513
20201,365-148 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Greenup: 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Clay. 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
Cumberland City PitStonePast Producer
Greenup Shale ExposureClayProspect
Oak Chapel Shale PitClayPast Producer
Toledo City PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenup in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2014HailGreenup$200,000The hail caused roof, siding, and vehicle damage.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenup$18,000Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down in Greenup.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindGreenup$5,000A large tree was blown down onto powerlines south of Greenup.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGreenup$2,000A large walnut tree was blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGreenup-Several trees were snapped or blown down in Greenup.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGreenup-A couple small outbuildings were damaged and several large tree branches were blown down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGreenup-A large tree limb was blown onto power lines.
August 2022Flash FloodGreenup-Water was flowing across Route 130.
July 2021Tornado (EF0)Greenup-A tornado touched down about 3.4 miles east-northeast of Greenup just south of I-70 at 5:40 PM CDT. The tornado tracked south-southeastward, eventually crossing U.S. 40 near the intersection of County Road 1975 East. Minor crop damage occurred before the tornado dissipated at 5:43 PM CDT.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenup-Several oak trees blown down near Greenup.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindGreenup-A few large tree limbs blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindGreenup-Numerous large tree limbs were blown down.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindGreenup-A large tree was blown down on Illinois Route 130 at the junction with Hazel Dell Road.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGreenup-Several power lines were blown down in 5 miles northeast of Greenup.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenup-A historic ice cream stand was destroyed by the thunderstorm winds in Greenup. No damage estimate was available.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreenup-A tree was blown down causing damage to the roof of a church on Route 40 one mile east of Greenup. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available.
May 2015HailGreenup-no account filed
May 2014HailGreenup-no account filed
May 2014HailGreenup-no account filed
May 2014HailGreenup-no account filed
April 2011HailGreenup-no account filed
May 2009HailGreenup-no account filed
April 2000HailGreenup-no account filed
August 2000HailGreenup-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Dees1.7 miles13
Liberty Hill3.3 miles13
Walla Walla3.6 miles13
Timothy4.2 miles12
Toledo4.6 miles12
Jewett5.2 miles13
Vevay Park6.2 miles12
Maple Point6.4 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 GreenupAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1885986The 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 409442. 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.