Morrisonville, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Ricks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62546. The Survey maps it on the Morrisonville quadrangle. 997 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMorrisonville fell from 1,056 to 997 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 | 1,056 | |
| 2020 | 997 | -59 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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 Nokomis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Nokomis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Morrisonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Morrisonville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Morrisonville in 2005, burning about 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 30 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morrisonville in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 6 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Morrisonville | $750,000 | A tornado formed in Montgomery County (WFO St. Louis CWA) and crossed into Christian County 4.4 miles southwest of Morrisonville. Just inside the Christian County line the tornado took the roof off of a shed and smashed it into the southwest corner of a house at the second level bedroom. A camper was tipped over on its side and a visible tornado track could be seen in the cornfield surrounding the house. A mile and a half northeast, a 16 foot wide garage door was completely removed and the west wall of the attached garage was removed as well. A carport on a nearby house was destroyed. Further up the road numerous power poles were blown down, a house was blown 3 inches to the west on its foundation, and another home sustained moderate damage from a fallen tree on one end and the attached garage frame was pushed 6 inches inward on the other end. Two inch diameter tree branches were pierced at least a foot into the ground in this area. About a mile further northeast, the tornado caused around $500,000 in damage to a farmstead. A garage was destroyed and wrapped around some farm equipment. More debris and missiles were projected several inches into the ground and a house was shifted a foot north from its foundation. Several outbuildings, grain bins, and two semis were destroyed. The tornado wrapped a grain bin around a combine and a huge grain wagon. The tornado remained on the ground for another mile and a half knocking over numerous trees and power poles before lifting and dissipating 4 miles north of Palmer. No injuries were reported and damage so far has been estimated around $750,000. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | $12,000 | A large tree limb was blown onto a vehicle. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | $10,000 | Powerlines were blown down in Morrisonville. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | $4,000 | Several small tree limbs were blown down across Morrisonville. |
| May 2023 | Flash Flood | Morrisonville | $3,000 | Several roads were underwater in Morrisonville. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Morrisonville | - | A tornado touched down just east of the intersection of East 900 North Road and North 200 East Road about 4 miles north-northwest of Morrisonville at 7:06 PM CDT. The tornado destroyed several grain bins and carried them across an open field as it tracked northeastward before dissipating south of the intersection of East 1100 North Road and North 600 East Road 3 miles northwest of Palmer at 7:08 PM CDT. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | - | Numerous trees and tree branches were blown down across Morrisonville. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Morrisonville | - | Thunderstorms with very heavy rain produced rainfall rates of nearly 3.00 per hour in southern Christian County resulting in flash flooding. Most rural roads south and east of Illinois Route 48 from Morrisonville to Owaneco to the Montgomery County line were impassable the entire evening. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Morrisonville | - | Continued from Montgomery county, WFO St Louis forecast area. Tornado briefly crossed a field in Christian county and no damage was reported. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Morrisonville | - | The tornado entered the county from Montgomery County (WFO St Louis). The tornado destroyed a corn crib at a farm and caused significant roof damage to an outbuilding at the farm and a nearby home. A few trees were also snapped off. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | - | A measured wind gust of 61 mph was occurred in Morrisonville and several power lines were blown down in Stonington. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Morrisonville | - | Numerous roads in southern Christian County were flooded due to heavy rainfall including IL Route 48 between Morrisonville and Clarksdale. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | - | Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Morrisonville | - | Water covered several roadways for a time over the southern half of the county. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Morrisonville | - | Numerous roads between Morrisonville and Taylorville were briefly flooded due to heavy rains. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | - | Several power lines and power poles were reported down on the east and south sides of town. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | - | A line of storms moved through Christian County causing damage in western portions of the county. The winds blew down several power lines 2 miles north of Morrisonville and at the Commonwealth Edison Plant 4 miles west of Kincaid. Then as the storms travelled east, the winds blew down 2 grain bins onto some power lines in Edinburg and then damaged several roof tops and destroyed a hog building 1 mile northeast of Edinburg. No injuries were reported and no damage estimate was available. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down four or five trees. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines and tree limbs in Morrisonville. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Morrisonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Morrisonville | - | no account filed |
| November 2013 | Hail | Morrisonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Morrisonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Morrisonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Morrisonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Morrisonville | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Morrisonville | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morrisonville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmer | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Clarksdale | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Vanderville | 8.4 miles | 13 | |
| Langleyville | 11.2 miles | 12 | |
| Jeisyville | 11.2 miles | 13 | |
| Tovey | 11.7 miles | 13 | |
| Tovey Humphrey Station | 11.7 miles | 13 | |
| Kincaid | 11.8 miles | 13 |
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 Morrisonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2113914 | 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 413850. 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.






