Liberty, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62347. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. 543 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresLiberty grew from 516 to 543 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 | 516 | |
| 2020 | 543 | +27 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1925 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
29 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 2009 and 2016, burning about 155 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2009 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MORRISON |
| 16 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10188 |
| 6 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1195 |
| 5 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1193 |
| 5 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 1083 |
| 4 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | HENSON |
| 27 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 4272015 |
| 11 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 4112015 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty in 28 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 13 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted a couple of trees, broke large branches, and downed some power lines. Several windows at the elementary school were broken by flying debris. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Liberty | $5,000 | Hail up to an inch in diameter caused minor damage to siding and window frames on a house. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the door off a barn, damaged a cattle gate, and scattered lawn ornaments at a farm northeast of Payson. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged a machine shed at a farm northeast of Payson. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a power line just north of Liberty. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | An intense bow echo moved through the Liberty area. A barn lost part of its roof due to the thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | Thunderstorm winds tore off part of the roof of a business's machine shed about 3 miles southeast of Quincy Regional Airport and threw the debris several hundred feet across Illinois Route 104. |
| December 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Liberty | - | A tornado touched down in an open field west of Illinois Route 104. It damaged several trees in this location. The tornado travelled to the east northeast. It damaged the roof of one home just east of Illinois Route 104. It then destroyed a large barn just south of County Road 1050N. The debris field extended for a mile to the north northeast of the barn. |
| December 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Liberty | - | A tornado touched down just west of County Road 2250th Street, north of N1025th Avenue. It damaged a machine shed and a mobile home in this location. It travelled to the northeast and caused some additional tree damage before lifting and dissipating. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | A bus barn for the Liberty High School had its roof blown off. Three buses had minor damage and the metal roof sections were blown across the running track and a nearby road. Also, a power pole was snapped in half. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | Thunderstorm winds caused the partial collapse of an old abandoned building on the south side of Liberty. Also, numerous tree limbs were blown down. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | A couple of large trees were blown down in town. No structures were damaged. |
| September 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Liberty | - | A tornado first formed in a valley east of Liberty and moved south crossing County Road 2675. The tornado dissipated near the intersection of County Road 2675 and 800. One machine shed was destroyed and several trees were damaged. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Liberty | - | The supercell storm that spawned tornadoes in Monroe, and Marion Counties of Missouri spawned a third tornado in east-central Adams County, Illinois. The tornado first formed approximately 2 miles north northeast of Liberty, Illinois and traveled northeast into northwest Brown County Illinois. A number of barns, machine sheds and large trees were damaged or destroyed in the path of the tornado over east central Adams county. The width of the damage area varied from 75 to as much as 150 yards and was rated F0 intensity during the early part of the path and F1 over the final 4 miles in far eastern Adams County. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Liberty | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Liberty | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richfield | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Adams | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Kingston | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Spring Valley | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Plainville | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Burton | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Columbus | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Chestline | 8.2 miles | 11 |
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 Liberty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2488795 | 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 411982. 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.
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.





