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Lima, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lima Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62348. The Survey maps it on the Lima quadrangle. 148 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Lima within Adams County

Population over time

2 figures

Lima fell from 163 to 148 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
2010163
2020148-15 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lima: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Vinson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Marce Number 7 QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Quincy Sand Co. DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lima in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
November 2015Thunderstorm WindLima-Thunderstorm winds overturned a semi on Illinois Route 96 in Lima.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindLima-Thunderstorm winds snapped an aluminum flag pole.
November 2005HailLima-The County Sheriff reported 1 inch hail.
March 2000HailLima-Storm spotters reported 3/4 inch hail covering the ground just southeast of Lima.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindLima-Winds downed large tree limbs and small trees.
November 2020HailLima-no account filed
June 2011HailLima-no account filed
June 2010HailLima-no account filed
March 2007Thunderstorm WindLima-no account filed
September 2003HailLima-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Marcelline4.1 miles15
Meyer6.9 miles18
Ursa7.1 miles15
Mendon7.9 miles15
Loraine8.4 miles14
Rock Creek9.2 miles14
Woodville10.4 miles14
Bloomfield11.5 miles15

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 LimaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2339931The 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 412095. 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.

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.