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.
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.
LeRoy Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1996 · 0.9 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresLe 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,560 | |
| 2020 | 3,512 | -48 (-1%) |
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.
- 1951 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Le Roy quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Champaign quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
In the county-history sources
19,351 words on this townshipThe 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 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | $140,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. Four cars were damaged by falling trees, and five houses were damaged by falling tree branches. |
| December 2018 | Tornado (EF2) | Le Roy | $75,000 | A 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | $65,000 | Eight 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | $55,000 | A concrete silo was destroyed and numerous tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | $20,000 | Numerous tree branches were blown down. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Le Roy | $10,000 | A 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | The wind gust was estimated by an emergency manager. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | Several large tree branches were blown down. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | A semi was blown over and tree branches were blown onto power lines. |
| September 2022 | Tornado (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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | Several tree limbs were blown down in Le Roy. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | A power pole was bent along I-74 just south of Le Roy. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | A tree was blown onto a road. |
| November 2017 | Flash Flood | Le 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 2014 | Tornado (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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | A tree and a few power poles were snapped off in Leroy. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | Numerous large tree branches were blown down. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | Large tree branch was blown down. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | Several trees blown down. Two trees fell on houses. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Le Roy | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Le Roy | - | Over 4 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time. Numerous roads were flooded including Illinois Route 150 near LeRoy. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Le Roy | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No injuries or damage were reported. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Le Roy | - | Another tornado touched down in a field 1 mile west of LeRoy. No injuries or damage were reported. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Le Roy | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Le Roy | - | 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.
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 Roy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q575549 | 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 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.






