BlockLeland, Illinois
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Adams Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60531. The Survey maps it on the Leland quadrangle. 951 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLeland fell from 977 to 951 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 | 977 | |
| 2020 | 951 | -26 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Earlville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Leland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
698 words on this townshipHistory of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Adams Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Quincy Railroad passes northeastwardly across the north side of the town, and Leland Station is a thriving village. The first settlement was in 1836, but the settlements were few, and scattered, till the advent of the railroad, atter which the town rapidly filled up.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leland in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Lightning | Leland | $50,000 | Lightning struck a house on Grant Street in Leland. All of the electrical wiring and plumbing in the house was destroyed, but there was no fire. The lightning apparently traveled 300 to 400 feet through the water lines rupturing a water main. The lightning also caused a large hole in the roof and blew out some windows. The occupants of the house were home when the lightning strike occurred but were not injured. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland | - | Utility poles were snapped. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Leland | - | A photo shared on social media showed hail at least tennis ball size. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland | - | Trees and tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland | - | Tree damage was reported just north of Leland. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland | - | Tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Leland. |
| August 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Leland | - | A funnel cloud was viewed for about 3 minutes. |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Leland | - | Near LaSalle/DeKalb county line. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland | - | Numerous large oak trees were blown down in town. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland | - | A large tree was blown down at the intersection of Main and Hall Streets. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Leland | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Leland | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baker | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Northville | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Munson (historical) | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Earlville | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Lake Holiday | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Harding | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Catharine | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Sheridan | 8.5 miles | 10 |
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 | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671797 | 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 411940. 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.