BlockJewett, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Woodbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62436. The Survey maps it on the Greenup quadrangle. 196 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresJewett fell from 223 to 196 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 | 223 | |
| 2020 | 196 | -27 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1940 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jewett: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Toledo City Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jewett in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | $25,000 | Numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Jewett. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | $20,000 | Several trees and tree branches were blown down in Jewett. |
| April 2025 | Tornado (EF2) | Jewett | - | A tornado touched down southwest of the intersection of County Road 1225 East and County Road 450 North about 2.5 miles south of Toledo at 6:33 PM CDT. The tornado tracked northeastward, knocking down trees and damaging outbuildings before increasing in intensity and snapping nearly two dozen power poles and destroying an outbuilding south and east of Union Center. It then crossed into Clark County south of the intersection of County Road 000 East and County Road 1530 North at 6:48 PM CDT. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jewett | - | Numerous tree branches were blown down, including a 10-inch diameter branch. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Jewett | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walla Walla | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Woodbury | 3.1 miles | 11 | |
| Toledo | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Dees | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Liberty Hill | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| Greenup | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Roslyn | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Bradbury | 8.0 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 Jewett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1688620 | 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 411110. 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.