BlockPatoka, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Patoka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62875. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Patoka quadrangle. 525 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 505 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPatoka fell from 584 to 525 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 | 584 | |
| 2020 | 525 | -59 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1945 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Vandalia quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Patoka quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patoka in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Patoka | 2 hurt | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Patoka | $5,000 | A large weighted patio table was blown into two trucks on the property, causing minor damage. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Patoka | - | Thunderstorm winds downed multiple power poles in Patoka. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Patoka | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down three large trees. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Patoka | - | Several tree tops were snapped off by the thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Patoka | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage on the north side of town along Kinoka Road near Highway 50. One business suffered roof damage and numerous trees were downed along Kinoka Road east of Highway 50. West of Highway 50, the Patoka Schools multi-purpose room lost part of its roof. Gravel blown off the roof damaged a couple of vans parked at the school as well. Trees were also downed around the school. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Patoka | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Patoka | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Patoka | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Patoka | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Patoka | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Patoka | - | 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.
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 Patoka | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2307876 | 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 415433. 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.