Irwin, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Otto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60901. The Survey maps it on the West Kankakee quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresIrwin fell from 74 to 68 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 | 74 | |
| 2020 | 68 | -6 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1922 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1924 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS West Kankakee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Irwin between 2010 and 2012, burning about 16 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | ALLIAN |
| 13 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | VONDOR |
| 1 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | LIMESTONE |
| 13 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BITTLE |
| 11 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | OHRT |
| 10 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | TRUDEU |
| 20 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 102319 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Irwin: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blend Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irwin in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2016: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Irwin | $500,000 | A brief tornado developed about 5 miles southwest of Kankakee, or 3 miles south of Limestone, in southern Kankakee County. This brief tornado caused damage to a farm just north of the intersection of 5000W Road and 3000S Road. Several trees were uprooted or snapped. A machine shed on the property was destroyed, along with farm equipment and vehicles. A quonset building was damaged, and a fence was blown over. The tornado was rated EF1 with winds estimated at around 100 mph. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Irwin | - | Tree fell onto house on 5600 block of Rt 17 West. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dickeys | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Lehigh | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Hillside Manor | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Pilot Center (historical) | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Otto | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Chebanse | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Greenwich | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Goodrich | 5.5 miles | 12 |
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 Irwin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672352 | 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 410941. 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.






