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Irving, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Irving Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62051. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. 373 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 654 feet above sea level.

Irving within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Irving fell from 495 to 373 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
2010495
2020373-122 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Irving between 2001 and 2005, burning about 56 acres 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2003Debris and open burning50 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 March 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 February 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Irving: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Spring Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irving in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
January 2026Thunderstorm WindIrving-Thunderstorm winds caused sporadic damage from Hillsboro northeastward to the Shelby/Montgomery/Christian county line. Municipalities include Irving, where a power pole was downed near McCords Trail and IL 16 along the Union Pacific railroad, Witt, Coalton, Nokomis, and Ohlman.
March 2026Tornado (EF1)Irving-A tornado touched down near Irving Road and North 17th Ave where it blew over a farm auger and lofted debris nearly a half mile to the southwest. The tornado then hit Witt directly where it lofted a carport and damaged multiple roofs and trees in town. The tornado tracked along State Route 16 into Coalton where it nearly completely removed the roof of a mobile home. From there, it turned nearly due north and entered the northwest portion of Nokomis. Although most of the damage done was to trees, the tornado did blow over an outdoor football scoreboard and ripped off portions of the local high school's roof.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindIrving-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs in Witt. One home sustained minor shingle damage.
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Irving-A tornado formed on east side of Irving and moved northeast. The bulk of the damage was EF0 with downed large tree limbs and partial removal of metal covering of farm outbuildings. A couple of grain bins, empty, were tossed into fields about 100 to 200 yards, on North 16th Avenue, just west of Witt Trail. One home east of Witt had the chimney blown off. A barn at the same location was pushed such that it ended up leaning about 6 inches off center. The tornado lifted and dissipated on Hillside Avenue about a quarter of a mile east of the intersection with East 22nd Road. Overall, the tornado was rated EF1 with a path length of 7.17 miles and a max path width of 100 yards.
June 2015Flash FloodIrving-Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded including Illinois Route 16 between Irving and Witt. Also, several viaducts were flooded as well.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindIrving-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous large tree limbs on the north side of Irving.
May 2011HailIrving-Lots of large hail fell over town, so of the hail stones were up to softball size. A few cars had their windows broken on them.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindIrving-The Irving Police reported 60 mph wind gusts.
May 1995Tornado (F0)Irving-The Illinois State Police reported a brief tornado touchdown.
March 2024HailIrving-no account filed
June 2018HailIrving-no account filed
April 2006HailIrving-no account filed
May 2005HailIrving-no account filed
May 2005HailIrving-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindIrving-no account filed
August 2000HailIrving-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Schram City4.3 miles10
Witt4.6 miles12
Hillsboro Heights5.4 miles10
Hillsboro5.6 miles10
Fairmont Place6.1 miles10
Butler6.9 miles12
Taylor Springs6.9 miles10
Coalton7.6 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 IrvingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2268738The 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 410929. 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.