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Schram City, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1982. It stands in East Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62049. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. 563 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 606 feet above sea level.

Schram City within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Schram City fell from 586 to 563 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
2010586
2020563-23 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Schram City between 2001 and 2005, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2003Debris and open burning50 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Schram City: 3 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Zinc, Clay. 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
(Facility) Hillsboro Zinc SmelterZincPlant
Spring Clay PitClayPast Producer
Hillsboro PitStonePast Producer
Montgomery County PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schram City in 1 storm report in 2026: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2026Tornado (EF1)Schram City-A brief tornado touched down on the Hillsboro Country Club where it produced minor damage to a home. The tornado then travelled northeast where it damaged trees, an outbuilding, and electrical poles. The tornado dissipated just north of White Ave west of Irving.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Hillsboro Heights1.2 miles10
Hillsboro1.6 miles10
Fairmont Place2.0 miles10
Taylor Springs2.7 miles10
Irving4.3 miles10
Butler4.4 miles12
Coffeen6.5 miles11
Island View8.7 miles12

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 Schram CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q634681The 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 423165. 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.