BlockNew Windsor, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Rivoli Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61465. The Survey maps it on the New Windsor quadrangle. 668 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 804 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNew Windsor fell from 748 to 668 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 | 748 | |
| 2020 | 668 | -80 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1947 USGS Woodhull quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS New Windsor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS New Windsor quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
69,788 words on this townshipHistory of Mercer County : Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, Etc., Gathered from Mattter Furnished by the Mercer County Historical Society, Interviews with Old Settlers, County, Township and Other Records, and Extracts from Files of Papers, Pamphlets, and Such Other Sources As Have Been Available : Containing Also a Short History of Henderson County, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Rivoli Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Xortli Henderson township, erecting a tall white oak pole by the grave, to the top of which was attached a white flag. This pole remained standing for many years, but the grave was marked longer by the remains of a pen of heavy rails that enclosed it. which could be identified until quite recently, if it cannot be even yet.
On Mr. Durston's place was built the first school-house in the township, in 1848, the frame of which now does duty in a granary for Hon. A. J. Streeter. Mr. Durston was one of the original members of the Wesleyan Methodist church, organized in Oxford in August 1847, and also of the class organized at Hopewell in the spring of 1848, as part of that church. This Hopewell class being the first church organization effected in that townslii}>, and until the school-house above referred to was built, their meetings where held at Mr. Durston's residence or that of Mi-. Chidester.
Xelson Chidester and his wife, Eebecca (Stewart), are among the early pioneers who still live to enjoy the advantages their labors have helped to build up out of the privations of pioneer life. Mr. Chidester was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, May 20, 1811 ; was married in that state October 29, 1834. and came to Illinois in 1889, spending the first winter at Little York, in AVarren county ; removing in the spring of 1840 to the northeast of section 16, in this township, where he still resides. Mr. and Mrs. Chidester were original members of the abovementioned church, to which thev still belong. The second school taught in the township was on Mr. Chidesters |)remises, occupying a back porch when the weather was pleasant, and moving into the kitchen when it rained. This school was tauijht in the summer of 1843 by Mary Stewart. The next year (1844) Mr. Chidester built a temporary building in his vard with lumber desia-ned for a barn, where Miss Pollock, of North Henderson, taught when the weather was pleasant ; when it rained she had to adjourn her school to the house, and that was a frequent occurrence that year.
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 Rivoli Township - it names this place 25 more 25 times.
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Windsor in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2013: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2003 | Hail | New Windsor | $500,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Heavy Rain | New Windsor | $150,000 | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | New Windsor | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Windsor | $5,000 | 3 foot diameter trees down on 320th Street near Pope Creek. |
| April 2006 | Hail | New Windsor | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Windsor | $100 | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down some tree limbs and bent a flagpole about 4 miles west of Alpha, IL at 905 pm CDT June 29. Relayed by NWS Lincoln. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Windsor | - | Law enforcement reported trees down near U.S. Highway 67 south of 50th Street. |
| September 2006 | Heavy Rain | New Windsor | - | A spotter reported 4.50 inches of rain since 1800 CST September 11th. |
| April 2000 | Funnel Cloud | New Windsor | - | Funnel cloud reported by law enforcement. |
| May 2004 | Hail | New Windsor | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | New Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | New Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Windsor | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griffin | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Swedona | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Cable | 6.6 miles | 18 | |
| Viola | 7.7 miles | 12 | |
| North Henderson | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Boden | 8.6 miles | 18 | |
| Sherrard | 8.7 miles | 18 | |
| Matherville | 9.6 miles | 18 |
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 New Windsor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2548376 | 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 414472. 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.