BlockRedmon, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Buck Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61949. The Survey maps it on the Redmon quadrangle. 137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRedmon fell from 173 to 137 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 | 173 | |
| 2020 | 137 | -36 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1946 USGS Kansas quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Kansas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Redmon quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Redmon quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
6,847 words on this townshipThe History of Edgar County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County--its Cities, Towns, &c. : Directory of Its Tax-payers; War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics; Map of Edgar County; History of Illinois, Illustrated; History of the Northwest, Illustrated; Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c., &c. Illustrated, published 1879 names this settlement in its chapter on Buck Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Andrew Lycan, who died in Paris Township, a few years ago, was a car¬ penter. He is remembered to have built, for George Redmon, the first frame house in Paris Township outside of the city. He was for a great number of years, much interested in the County Agricultural Society, and his name will be found often on its records.
The following poem, written by Eugene J. Hall, is so applicable to the experience of nearly every old settler that we are sure they will thank us for introducing it, and will read it with the same pleasure with which it has been * read by us :
WILLIS BRINKERHOFF, farmer, P. O. Redmon ; was born Sept. 9, 1853; is a native of Edgar Co., Grand View being his native township ; lived there with his father until 1875; then came to his present residence. Was mar¬ ried Oct. 7, 1875, to Miss Araminta M. Hanna, of Edgar Co. Has a good commonschool education ; began business for him¬ self in 1875, at farming, which business he has since followed ; he is still a young man, full of life and ambition, stands well in the community, and bids fair to become one among the leading farmers of Edgar Co., being honest, intelligent and indus¬ trious.
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 Buck Township - it names this place 19 more 19 times.
Storms near this place
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redmon in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Redmon | $20,000 | Numerous tree branches were blown down and a corn field was flattened west of Redmon. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Redmon | $15,000 | A shed was damaged and a few trees were blown down. |
| December 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Redmon | - | Video evidence indicated that a tornado touched down about 1 mile east-southeast of Redmon at 4:45 PM CST. The tornado caused minor damage to an outbuilding before quickly dissipating at 4:46 PM CST. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mays | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Borton | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Catfish (historical) | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| New Athens (historical) | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Warrington | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Isabel | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Dudley | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Conlogue | 5.3 miles | 14 |
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 Redmon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2606534 | 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 416478. 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.