BlockHume, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Young America Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61932. It stands on Clark Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hume quadrangle. 325 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHume fell from 380 to 325 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 | 380 | |
| 2020 | 325 | -55 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Newman quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Hume quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Hume quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Young America township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Past And Present
As has been incidentally mentioned, the first settler in this part of the county located at Hickory Grove. In the year 1820, a man named Helvene Stine came to this grove, began cutting trees, principally for coons or for honey. A\ bile engaged in this sport, he got after a good-sized coon, and in cutting down the tree, by some means, he was killed by its falling.
In the county-history sources
11,897 words on this townshipThe History of Edgar County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County--its Cities, Towns, &c. : Directory of Its Tax-payers; War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map of Edgar County; History of Illinois, Illustrated; History of the Northwest, Illustrated; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c., &c. Illustrated, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Young America Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
As late as 1870, when a county map was made, and each resident's house located on it, the reader can notice the people lived in the eastern and northern portions entirely. Mr. Hume states that when he came, in 1865, there were no people on the prairie ; it was used as a large pasture, immense # droves of cattle being herded thereon.
Inquiries relating to the first schools and churches in Young America Town¬ ship, omitting that part now included in Ross Township, develop the fact that the first schoolhouse was erected here in 1861. Some assert this date as incorrect, placing the first one, the " Old Green Schoolhouse " as early as 1854 or 1855. Mr. Hume says that in 1865 there were only three in the whole township. We are inclined to the opinion from all that could be learned, that the first one was erected prior to 1861, for to a certainty school was taught before that date. May be that only the room of a settler's cabin was used. One informant gives the first school teacher's name, saying it was Sarah Henthorn. He also states that the first schoolhouse was erected in 1861, that it stood neaf Mr. G. W. Kendall's, and that it is now used as a carriage-house. It is very certain that until 1870 or later, only three or four schoolhouses were in this town¬ ship. It will be remembered, that the population was sparse until 1872, and that but few would be needed. From that date until now, as the people came in and occupied the territory, others were erected as their wants required.
When Mr. E. W. S. Hume located where the village bearing his name now stands, there was not a single habitation near him. He came here in February, 1865, about the close of the late war, and purchased a tract of land on the pro¬ posed line of the railroad, which then began to attract some attention to this part of the country, and which has much to do with the settling of the prairies here. In November, Mr. Hume brought his family to their then new home, and opened a farm and began its cultivation.
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 Young America Township - it names this place 15 more 15 times.
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hume in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hume | $15,000 | Three power poles were snapped and several tree branches were blown down. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hume | $5,000 | A large tree was blown down. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hume | $1,500 | A tree was blown down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hume | - | Numerous large tree limbs were blown down. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hume | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Hume | - | A tornado briefly touched down 1 mile south of Hume. No damage was reported. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Hume | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported. |
| February 1999 | Hail | Hume | - | The hail caused some minor damage to a few homes and vehicles in the Hume area. |
| April 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Hume | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field 2 miles northeast of Hume. No injuries or damage were reported. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Hume | - | 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.
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 Hume | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671259 | 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 410680. 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.