BlockLomax, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lomax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61454. It stands on Little Dugout Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lomax quadrangle. 404 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLomax fell from 454 to 404 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 | 454 | |
| 2020 | 404 | -50 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1932 USGS Lomax quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Lomax quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Lomax quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lomax: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biggsville Quarry Medusa Agg. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dallas City Quarry Turner Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lomax in 17 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 6 hail, 5 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Flood | Lomax | $250,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lomax | $5,000 | Wind gusts estimated to be over 60 mph blew some trees and power lines down in the Dallas City, IL area around 756 pm July 27. One tree was blocking Route 96 on the northeast side of town in Henderson County. |
| August 2023 | Flash Flood | Lomax | - | Law Enforcement reported that IL-96 was flooded in a construction zone around Camp Creek. The flooding was discovered around 615 AM CDT. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lomax | - | A public report of a large tree down via social media. the The time of the event was estimated using radar. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Lomax | - | The Mississippi River at Burlington began June above its major flood stage of 18 feet and fell below major flood stage around 1 AM on June 17th. The river crested at 24.48 feet on June 2nd. This crest is preliminarily the 3rd highest on record at Burlington.|The Mississippi River at Gladstone began June above its major flood stage of 14 feet and fell back below major flood stage around 5 AM on June 15th. The river crested 20.62 feet on June 2nd. This crest is preliminarily the third highest on record. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Lomax | - | The Mississippi River at Gregory Landing rose above its major flood stage of 25 feet around 10 AM on May 29th and remained above its major flooding through the end of the month. This flooding continued into June. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Lomax | - | The Mississippi River at Gregory Landing rose above its major flood stage of 25 feet during the after of May 2nd and fell back below major flood stage during the morning hours of May 3rd. The river crested at 25.16 feet at midnight on May 3rd. This was the 3rd highest crest on record. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lomax | - | Time was estimated in a spotter report of multiple trees and multiple power poles blown down. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Lomax | - | Heavy rains during the second half of June resulted in the Mississippi River at Burlington, IA and Gladstone, IL going above their respective major flood stage levels. They crested about 5.5 to 6 feet above their major flooding levels during the evening of July 5 and morning of July 6. They fell below their major flood stage levels in mid July.||Burlington rose above its major flood stage level of 18 feet on June 27 around 12 am CDT. It crested around 23.65 feet around 8 am CDT July 6. It fell below the major flood stage level during the late afternoon of July 16.||Gladstone rose above its major flood stage level of 14 feet on June 29 around 12 am CDT. It crested around 19.83 feet around 8 pm CDT July 5. It fell below the major flood stage level around 8 am CDT July 15. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Lomax | - | Quarter sized hail fell in Dallas City, IL at 1055 am CDT May 29. |
| November 2010 | Hail | Lomax | - | A trained spotter estimated hail the size of hen eggs 4 miles southwest of Carman. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lomax | - | Penny-sized hail fell in Lomax, IL at 1:49 pm June 15. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Lomax | - | 7 to 8 inches of water covered Illinois route 96. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Lomax | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Lomax | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Lomax | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Lomax | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Junction | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Yellow Banks | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Carman | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Shokokon | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Terre Haute | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Heapsville | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Silver Lake (historical) | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Decorra | 6.4 miles | 16 |
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 Lomax | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q259560 | 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 412529. 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.