Hugo, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bowdre Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61953. It stands on Scattering Fork. The Survey maps it on the Villa Grove quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Hugo within Douglas County

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.

1956 USGS Villa Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Villa Grove quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Villa Grove quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

850 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Bowdre 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 Bowdre Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hugo in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hugo	$2,000	A tree was blown down onto Route 130 west of Hugo blocking one lane of traffic.
May 2024	Flash Flood	Hugo	-	A flowing creek washed out 200 feet on both sides of a culvert on North County Road 1965 East between East County Road 700 North and East County Road 800 North southwest of Murdock.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hugo	-	Several trees were blown down in Hugo.
March 2012	Hail	Hugo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Camargo	3.3 miles	11
Patterson Springs	3.5 miles	11
Kemp	4.5 miles	16
Hindsboro	4.8 miles	16
Murdock	4.9 miles	11
West Ridge	6.1 miles	11
Filson	6.3 miles	16
Meadowview	7.1 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 Hugo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14687576	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 422830. 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.