BlockNeponset, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Neponset Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61345. The Survey maps it on the Neponset quadrangle. 427 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresNeponset fell from 473 to 427 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 | 473 | |
| 2020 | 427 | -46 (-10%) |
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.
- 1929 USGS Annawan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1932 USGS Annawan quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Neponset quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Neponset quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,998 words on this townshipPast and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Neponset Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Xe])()iisot was lii-st named llrawby. in honor of Brawby. Kiighuul, as quite a number of English people j'roin that locality early settled there. The board of supervisors changed the mime to Neponset in 1866 The name Neponset was suggesetd by Myron H Lee who was the first railroad agent in Xe])onset. This township was in the military tract, and nuiny of the soldiers of 1812 who received patents for land regarded them of little worth and ga\(' no attention to locating them, but after the county began to settle up and land became valuable, these old patents were looked up and claims made to land already settled and improved. 'J'his state of alVairs brought about a largo amount of litig;ilioii in regard to titles. The military tract has already been described in this volume, so we nei'd not repeat the boundaries here. A large number of the early .settlers were from Ensrland. Among lliem were AVilliam Studley, who settled on section S in 1836. Soon William and (Jeorge Norton and James Tibbetts came. Tibbetts settled on section 19 and George Norton f)n section 15. Some of the other early arrivals were Robert Norton. Levi Lewis, George Bowen and E. Kent. The ilepot was built in 1885. M. II. lice was the agent for eighteen years, and built the first house in the village. The town was lilatted in June. 1855, by Colonel ('lark E. Carr and Caleb J. Little and Henry (i. Little. It was first incorporated under spi'cial act, but in October, 1882, it was incorporated under the act of 1872.
Passage source: Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Neponset Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neponset in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Tornado (F3) | Neponset | $3,000,000 | This tornado was first reported near Neponset at 1730 CDT - near highway 92 by 1800 CDT and photographed just west of Walnut at 1815 CDT. Photographs taken by Kevin Hladik verified that at least two tornadoes were on the ground at the same time in the Walnut area. The tornadoes appeared to be several hundred yards apart. The Melvin "Red" Donovan farm had some of the most extensive damage including their two story farm house that was totally destroyed. Most of the house debris was little more than kindling wood. The basement was almost entirely filled with tornado debris so thankfully the Donovans were not home when the tornado struck. Damage was estimated at $300,000 to $500,000 in the Walnut area alone. Two sheriff squad cars were dented by golf ball-size hail as deputies were tracking the tornadoes. On one of the cars the windshield and one headlight were broken out. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Neponset | $250,000 | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Neponset | $12,000 | Winds estimated around 100 mph. |
| June 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Neponset | $12,000 | Winds estimated around 100 mph. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Neponset | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neponset | $1,000 | A tree was blown down across 750 Ave N near 450 St E. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neponset | - | Law Enforcement reported power poles and a tree down near Neponset. The time of the event was estimated using radar. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neponset | - | Large branches downed throughout town by the thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Neponset | - | Report relayed by broadcast media. |
| April 2019 | Flash Flood | Neponset | - | Water was over Highway 34 near the border of Henry and Bureau counties. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Neponset | - | This was a delayed report of mostly dime sized hail with some stones up to the diameter of quarters. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neponset | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed in Neponset, IL at 527 pm June 23. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neponset | - | Large tree blown over onto a home. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Neponset | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Neponset | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Buda | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Mineral | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Burnett | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Langley | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Bourbonais (historical) | 8.9 miles | 10 | |
| Providence | 10.6 miles | 10 | |
| Wyanet | 11.9 miles | 10 |
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 Neponset | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q943846 | 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 414366. 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.
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.