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.
Population over time
2 figuresNason 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 236 | |
| 2020 | 199 | -37 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1939 USGS Ina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Ina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Ina quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Ina quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
5,518 words on this townshipHistory 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 2012Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MILLER |
| 4 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-03045 |
| 18 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-01385 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2005 | Tornado (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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nason | - | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nason | - | Large tree limbs from 10 to 12 inches in diameter were blown down. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Nason | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dareville | 1.6 miles | 11 | |
| Fitzgerrell (historical) | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Ina | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Bonnie | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Waltonville | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Emerson City | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Spring Garden | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Williamsburg | 6.0 miles | 12 |
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 Nason | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q578645 | 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 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.






