Martinton, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Martinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60951. The Survey maps it on the Beaverville quadrangle. 334 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMartinton fell from 381 to 334 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 | 381 | |
| 2020 | 334 | -47 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1935 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:48000
- 1939 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Beaverville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Martinton in 2013, 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 July 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13-00035 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Martinton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kendall Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Martinton in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinton | $20,000 | Two houses on the southwest corner of Martinton near Route 1 had roof damage including one house with part of the roof blown off. Utility poles were also blown down. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Martinton | $1,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| December 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Martinton | - | Storm spotters and chasers captured footage of a funnel cloud south of Martinton that lasted several minutes. Photos and video showed that the funnel cloud was intermittently in contact with the ground as it moved northeast across open fields between N 1900 East Road and N 2400 East Road. The last footage of the funnel cloud was captured around 15:59 CST as it dissipated east of Martinton, south of E 2800 North Road. There was no known damage from this tornado. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Martinton | - | A brief tornado was reported near IL 1 and County Road 2900N. No damage was reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papineau | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Pittwood | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Freedville | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Beaverville | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Donovan | 6.2 miles | 11 | |
| Hooper | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| L'Erable | 6.5 miles | 12 | |
| North Hooper | 6.7 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 Martinton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2640847 | 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 413080. 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.







