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Le Roy, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Empire Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61752. The Survey maps it on the Le Roy quadrangle. 3,512 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Le Roy within McLean County

On record in Le Roy

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Le Roy fell from 3,560 to 3,512 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
20103,560
20203,512-48 (-1%)

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.

In the county-history sources

19,351 words on this township

The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois : Containing Two Hundred and Sixty-one Sketches of Old Settlers, a Complete Historical Sketch of the Black Hawk War and Descriptions of All Matters of Interest Relating to McLean County, published 1874 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Empire Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Empire Township - 19,351 words.

Storms near this place

36 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Le Roy in 36 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 7 tornado, 2 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$140,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. Four cars were damaged by falling trees, and five houses were damaged by falling tree branches.
December 2018Tornado (EF2)Le Roy$75,000A tornado touched down one mile south of Moraine View State Park at 7:18 PM CST. It tore off most of the roof of a house and destroyed an attached garage. An outbuilding and several trees were also damaged. The tornado quickly dissipated just east of Moraine View State Park at 7:20 PM CST.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$65,000Eight houses and a car were damaged by falling trees in LeRoy. Also, widespread tree damage occurred to a residence in rural Leroy. Numerous trees were snapped off or uprooted. Corn was flattened in a nearby field.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$55,000A concrete silo was destroyed and numerous tree limbs were blown down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLe Roy$20,000Numerous tree branches were blown down.
May 2011Tornado (EF1)Le Roy$10,000A tornado formed about 2 miles southeast of Downs. It crossed Interstate 74 and overturned a semi-truck. The tornado continued tracking to the north-northeast through open fields until it dissipated.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-The wind gust was estimated by an emergency manager.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-Several large tree branches were blown down.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-A semi was blown over and tree branches were blown onto power lines.
September 2022Tornado (EF0)Le Roy-A tornado touched down on the southwest side of LeRoy at 12:28am CDT, knocking a power pole onto a mobile home and a tree onto another mobile home. The tornado tracked southeastward through the southern part of town doing minor tree damage, causing partial roof damage to two duplexes, and tipping over two semis on I-74. It continued southeastward, partially damaging a roof 2.5 miles southeast of LeRoy before dissipating in a field about 3.5 miles southeast of LeRoy at 12:34am CDT.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-Several tree limbs were blown down in Le Roy.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-A power pole was bent along I-74 just south of Le Roy.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-A tree was blown onto a road.
November 2017Flash FloodLe Roy-Thunderstorms producing excessive rainfall rates dropped around 2 inches of rain in Leroy in a short amount of time. As a result, over one foot of water was flowing across Route 150.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Le Roy-A landspout tornado touched down in a field 1.1 miles NNE of Leroy at 12:47 PM CDT. The tornado was on the ground for 3 minutes before dissipating at 12:50 PM CDT. No damage was reported.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-A tree and a few power poles were snapped off in Leroy.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-Numerous large tree branches were blown down.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-Large tree branch was blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-Several trees blown down. Two trees fell on houses.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Le Roy-A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported.
July 2002Flash FloodLe Roy-Over 4 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time. Numerous roads were flooded including Illinois Route 150 near LeRoy.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Le Roy-A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No injuries or damage were reported.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Le Roy-Another tornado touched down in a field 1 mile west of LeRoy. No injuries or damage were reported.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLe Roy-no account filed
April 2023HailLe Roy-no account filed
April 2023HailLe Roy-no account filed
April 2023HailLe Roy-no account filed
April 2023HailLe Roy-no account filed
April 2015HailLe Roy-no account filed
June 2011HailLe Roy-no account filed
April 2010HailLe Roy-no account filed
July 2009HailLe Roy-no account filed
March 2006HailLe Roy-no account filed
March 2006HailLe Roy-no account filed
July 2003HailLe Roy-no account filed
April 2000HailLe Roy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Empire4.4 miles12
Sabina6.0 miles12
Downs6.4 miles14
Padua6.8 miles14
Holder7.2 miles14
Ellsworth7.2 miles12
Gillum8.1 miles14
Shamrock8.5 miles14

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 Le RoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575549The 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 411883. 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.