BlockSaunemin, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Saunemin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61769. The Survey maps it on the Saunemin quadrangle. 406 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSaunemin fell from 420 to 406 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 | 420 | |
| 2020 | 406 | -14 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1947 USGS Cullom quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Cullom quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Saunemin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1998 USGS Saunemin quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
467 words on this townshipHistorical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909 names this settlement in its chapter on Saunemin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The village was platted and surveyed by County Surveyor D. J. Stanford, on September 24, 1879, for Thomas Braumley and George D. Paddock, the former being the owner of the southwest quarter of section 15 and the latter the owner of the northwest quarter of section 22, Ocober 3, 1879, Holdridge and Spafford laid out an addition, and on December 1, 1883, another addition was laid out by R. L. Holdridge. Although not so old as many of the towns in the county, Saunemin has had a remarkable growth, and is now recognized as one of the most thriving towns. It is located on the Wabash railroad, and one mile south from the crossing of the
Passage source: Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Livingston County, Vol. 2 by Strawn, Johnson, and Franzen (1909)., published 1909.
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 Saunemin Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saunemin in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Hail | Saunemin | - | A photo shared on social media showed tennis ball size hail. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Saunemin | - | A private weather station measured 2.26 inches of rain in 1 hour and 45 minutes. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Saunemin | - | Route 116 was closed due to flooding near Saunemin. |
| March 2007 | Flood | Saunemin | - | Illinois Route 47 closed due to high water. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Saunemin | - | A trained spotter reported and photographed a tornado west of Saunemin. Trees were knocked down on the north side of State Road 116 near 2500 East, about 3 miles west of Saunemin. |
| May 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Saunemin | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Saunemin | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Saunemin | - | 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 Saunemin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672293 | 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 418036. 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.