Mendon, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Mendon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62351. The Survey maps it on the Mendon quadrangle. 872 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in Mendon
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Lewis Round Barnlisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresMendon fell from 953 to 872 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 | 953 | |
| 2020 | 872 | -81 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1946 USGS Mendon quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Mendon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Mendon quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Mendon quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mendon in 2015, 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 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 March 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2015009 |
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 Mendon: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weitholder Lorraine Plt.#10 Qry. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendon in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a couple of smaller sheds on a farm. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | An intense bow echo moved through the area, several large trees and a couple of power lines were blown down just southwest of Mendon. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees along Illinois Route 336 just east of Mendon. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Mendon | - | Storm chasers reported 1 inch hail. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Mendon | - | Storm Chasers reported 1 inch hail in Mendon. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Mendon | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Mendon | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ursa | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Bloomfield | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Marcelline | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Loraine | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Fowler | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Paloma | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Rock Creek | 6.8 miles | 14 | |
| Bigneck | 7.6 miles | 14 |
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 Mendon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2666717 | 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 413396. 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.








