BlockOak Run, Illinois
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Persifer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61428. The Survey maps it on the Appleton quadrangle. 721 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOak Run grew from 547 to 721 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 | 547 | |
| 2020 | 721 | +174 (+32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 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.
- 1941 USGS Maquon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Maquon quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Appleton quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
12,484 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Album of Knox County, Illinois, published 1886; Annals of Knox County : Commemorating Centennial of Admission of Illinois As a State of the Union in 1818, published 1921 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Persifer Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Persifer Township - 12,484 words.
Storms near this place
6 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Run in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Run | - | Two large trees were blown down onto a home. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Run | - | Several large trees were snapped at the base. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Run | - | Corn Belt Energy reported extensive tree and power line damage in the Oak Run area. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Run | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down across Oak Run Golf Course. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oak Run | - | Corn and sorghum fields were flattened about 3 miles west-northwest of Dahinda. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Oak Run | - | Thunderstorms with rainfall rates of 1.00 to 1.50 per hour persisted for nearly three hours in parts of eastern Knox County. Observers reported 3.00 to 6.00 of rain on ground already saturated by flooding the previous week. The flooding made Illinois Route 180 north of Williamsfield impassable. Many rural roads from Oak Run to Williamsfield were also flooded. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appleton | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Dahinda | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Trenton Corners | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Victoria | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Truro | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Knox | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Williamsfield | 7.5 miles | 16 | |
| Gilson | 7.6 miles | 16 |
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 Oak Run | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7073725 | 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 1719678. 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.