BlockPenfield, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Compromise Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61862. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Penfield quadrangle. 151 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPenfield fell from 193 to 151 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 | 193 | |
| 2020 | 151 | -42 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1936 USGS Potomac quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Potomac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Penfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Penfield: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rantoul City Eng | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penfield in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Penfield | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2017 | Flash Flood | Penfield | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.50 to 2.50 inches during the early morning hours of May 4th, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across much of Champaign County. Officials reported that most roads were impassable and numerous creeks rapidly flooded, particularly south of I-74 and east of I-57. Numerous streets and viaducts in Champaign and Urbana were also flooded. |
| May 2017 | Flood | Penfield | - | Heavy rainfall of 1.50 to 2.50 inches during the early morning hours of May 4th, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across much of Champaign County. Officials reported that most roads were impassable and numerous creeks rapidly flooded, particularly south of I-74 and east of I-57. Numerous streets and viaducts in Champaign and Urbana were also flooded. Additional rainfall of 1.00 to 1.50 inches later in the day May 4th into May 5th caused creeks and roads to stay flooded for nearly 24 hours. Flood waters subsided by the afternoon on May 5th. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Penfield | - | Training thunderstorm cells produced an area of flash flooding in northeast Champaign County. Rainfall rates of nearly 1.50 inches per hour for more than three hours were reported. Many rural roads were inundated by the flooding, particularly U.S. Route 136 east of Gifford. |
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 Penfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q9058007 | 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 415522. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.