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Kincaid, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1998. It stands in South Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62540. The Survey maps it on the Kincaid quadrangle. 1,349 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 598 feet above sea level.

Kincaid within Christian County

Population over time

2 figures

Kincaid fell from 1,505 to 1,349 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
20101,505
20201,349-156 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kincaid in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2008Thunderstorm WindKincaid$55,000Multiple buildings sustained wind damage in Kincaid and Bulpitt.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKincaid$25,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindKincaid$10,000A tree was blown onto a house in Jeiseyville just southeast of Kincaid.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindKincaid$8,000A tree was blown onto a house in Kincaid at the 300 block of West Elm Street.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKincaid$4,000Two trees were blown down in Kincaid.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindKincaid-A large tree branch was blown down.
June 2022Flash FloodKincaid-The South Fork of the Sangamon River spilled out of its banks and flowed across Route 104 just east of Kincaid.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindKincaid-Several 4-inch diameter tree branches were blown into power lines.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindKincaid-Power lines were blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindKincaid-Three trees blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindKincaid-Several trees were blown down.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Kincaid-A tornado briefly touched down outside of town destroying a grain silo and blowing down several trees. No injuries were reported.
April 2001Flash FloodKincaid-Flooding was reported in Kincaid, with Highway 104 covered in spots by flowing water. Some flooding was also noted in Taylorville. The flash flooding was the result of 1.5 to nearly 3 inches of rain across the area.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindKincaid-A large tree was blown over onto a front porch, causing minor damage.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindKincaid-Numerous trees, tree limbs, and power lines were blown down in an area extending from Kincaid to Pana. In Pana, one of the fallen trees damaged a car. No one was injured and no damage estimate was available.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindKincaid-Several trees were blown over in Kincaid and Morrisonville, some of which knocked down a few power lines.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindKincaid-Numerous large trees and power lines were blown down. Also, one grain bin was blown one-half a mile to the northwest, damaging 10 vehicles at the Taylorville Correctional Center. In Taylorville, a business had three walls of its building blown down causing extensive damage. No damage estimate was available.
March 2020HailKincaid-no account filed
April 2017HailKincaid-no account filed
June 2015HailKincaid-no account filed
June 2010HailKincaid-no account filed
June 2008HailKincaid-no account filed
August 2003HailKincaid-no account filed
May 1998HailKincaid-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Christian 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
Bulpitt0.5 miles13
Jeisyville0.9 miles13
Tovey Humphrey Station2.2 miles13
Tovey2.2 miles13
Langleyville3.6 miles12
Sharpsburg3.8 miles12
Sicily4.1 miles13
Edinburg4.9 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 KincaidAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672078The 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 411477. 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.