Leland Grove, Illinois
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Capital Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62704. The Survey maps it on the Springfield West quadrangle. 1,454 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in Leland Grove
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 1 record
Hugh M. Garvey Houselisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresLeland Grove fell from 1,503 to 1,454 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 | 1,503 | |
| 2020 | 1,454 | -49 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1907 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1930 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1940 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Springfield West quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Springfield West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Springfield West quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
9,795 words on this townshipHistory of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Capital Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Capital Township - 9,795 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Leland Grove in 2010, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | OSWOLD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Leland Grove: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poston Brick & Concrete Prod. Clay | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Springfield Clay Prod.Co.Pitclay | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Springfield Pit Solomon Service | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Sangamon County Highway Department | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Springfield City Eng. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leland Grove in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | $5,000 | Tree limbs were snapped in the town of Jerome. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | - | Trees were blown down at Iles Avenue and Leonard Street and at Leonard Street and Reed Avenue. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | - | A large tree was blown over in the Montvale subdivision. |
| November 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland Grove | - | A tree was blown down and blocked one lane of Chatham Road in Springfield. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Leland Grove | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome | 0.7 miles | 19 | |
| West Grand Place | 0.7 miles | 19 | |
| Jess | 1.0 miles | 19 | |
| Coleman | 1.2 miles | 19 | |
| Hawthorne Place | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| Iles | 1.4 miles | 19 | |
| Southern View | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| Cody | 2.4 miles | 19 |
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 Leland Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q575626 | 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 411941. 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.








