BlockRollo, Illinois
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Paw Paw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60518. The Survey maps it on the Paw Paw quadrangle. It stands 748 feet above sea level.
On record in Rollo
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Rollo Congregational United Church of Christlisted 2019 · 0.1 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1951 USGS Earlville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Paw Paw quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
5,813 words on this townshipPortrait and Biographical Album of DeKalb County, Illinois : Containing Full-page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County : Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States : Also Containing a History of the County, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Paw Paw Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
A postoffice was established at Ross Grove at an early day. In 1849 Wheeler Hedges was Postmaster. His receipts for the year were $1.09. It is not probable the office was established before 1848. According to John Wentworth, Moses Bartlett was Postmaster in 1851, George V. Miner in 1853, Charles Davis in 1855. Daring that year H. H. Clark was appointed and removed to its present site at the cross roads. Matthew Nisbit succeeded Clark, and the office was then successively held by J. L. Holmes, John Freetly and Charles Davis. Others held it for short intervals until 18^7, when the incumbent, Asa Demming, was appointed.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rollo: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Purdy Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Weidner Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rollo in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollo | $10,000 | A large grain bin was dented by strong winds. Multiple large trees were blown down. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollo | $2,000 | A Sheriff reported trees and power lines down in the area around Shabbona Road and Sleepy Hollow Road. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollo | - | Metal roofing was damaged on a building north of Leland. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollo | - | A private weather station measured a wind gust to 69 mph. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Rollo | - | A video shared to social media showed at least a foot of water flowing over Chicago Rd east of Paw Paw. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollo | - | A private weather station measured a 75 mph gust north of Leland. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Rollo | - | Penny size hail was reported 8 miles east of Paw Paw, or about 3.5 miles east northeast of Rollo. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rollo | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Rollo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shabbona Grove | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Shabbona | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Waterman | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| McGirr | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| Somonauk | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Franks | 11.2 miles | 9 | |
| Afton Center | 13.5 miles | 10 | |
| Sandwich | 14.1 miles | 10 |
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 Rollo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7361280 | 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 422018. 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.