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Savoy, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Champaign Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61874. The Survey maps it on the Bondville quadrangle. 8,857 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Savoy within Champaign County

Population over time

2 figures

Savoy grew from 7,280 to 8,857 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.

YearPeople Change
20107,280
20208,857+1,577 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Savoy in 2007, burning about 130 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
2 September 2007Smoking10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
18 September 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
11 August 2007Smoking1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
7 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
15 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
11 June 2007Natural2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Champaign County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Savoy: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Champaign City Hwy DeptStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Urbana City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Champaign County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Savoy in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 12 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Tornado (F3)Savoy12 hurt, $9,000,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindSavoy$100,000Numerous power poles were blown down on Rising Road 3 miles west of Savoy.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSavoy$80,000Thirteen power poles were blown down near the intersection of County Roads 1200E and 1100N.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSavoy$60,000Several power poles were snapped.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSavoy$50,000Several power poles and power lines were blown down north of the intersection of Curtis and Duncan Roads.
August 2009LightningSavoy$45,000A thunderstorm, with very heavy rainfall also produced a lightning strike which started a fire at a house near Savoy. The fire started on the roof and spread to the attic and ceiling of the uppermost floor of the house. Three people were in the house at the time of the lightning strike, and they all escaped uninjured.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Savoy$20,000A weak tornado touched down near Duncan Road and Rolling Acres Drive about 4.3 miles southwest of downtown Champaign at 2:19 PM CDT. The tornado snapped off the tops of trees and did minor damage to two properties before quickly dissipating in less than one minute about one tenth of a mile southeast of where it formed.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSavoy$20,000Several trees were blown down in Savoy.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindSavoy$8,000Four power poles were blown down at Old Church Road and Route 130.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSavoy-A large tree was snapped on Tomaras Avenue.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSavoy-Power lines were blown down on South Mattis Avenue.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindSavoy-Numerous pine trees were snapped or broken.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSavoy-A tree was blown over.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindSavoy-no account filed
April 2022HailSavoy-no account filed
May 2014HailSavoy-no account filed
May 2012HailSavoy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Champaign County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Kenwood4.2 miles21
Champaign4.3 miles24
Urbana4.5 miles24
Tolono4.7 miles14
Mira5.2 miles24
Staley5.2 miles21
Philo6.0 miles24
Wilbur Heights6.1 miles23

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 SavoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q389382The 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 418043. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.