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Nason, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Elk Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62816. The Survey maps it on the Ina quadrangle. 199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Nason within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Nason fell from 236 to 199 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
2010236
2020199-37 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

5,518 words on this township

History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1883; Wall's History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1909 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Elk Prairie Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Elk Prairie Township - 5,518 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Nason between 2012 and 2020, burning about 20 acres 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMILLER
4 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-03045
18 November 2020Debris and open burning20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-01385

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nason in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2005: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2005Tornado (F0)Nason-This tornado, which was videotaped and well-photographed, was over Rend Lake during most of its existence. Tree limbs were blown down south of Nason, as well as near Ina. Peak winds were estimated near 65 MPH.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindNason-Trees were blown down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindNason-Large tree limbs from 10 to 12 inches in diameter were blown down.
April 2003HailNason-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Dareville1.6 miles11
Fitzgerrell (historical)3.6 miles12
Ina3.8 miles11
Bonnie3.9 miles11
Waltonville4.4 miles12
Emerson City4.8 miles12
Spring Garden6.0 miles10
Williamsburg6.0 miles12

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 NasonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q578645The 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 414292. 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.