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.
Population over time
2 figuresSchram 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 586 | |
| 2020 | 563 | -23 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 June 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 April 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Hillsboro Zinc Smelter | Zinc | Plant | ||
| Spring Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Hillsboro Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Montgomery County Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2026Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Tornado (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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillsboro Heights | 1.2 miles | 10 | |
| Hillsboro | 1.6 miles | 10 | |
| Fairmont Place | 2.0 miles | 10 | |
| Taylor Springs | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Irving | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Butler | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Coffeen | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Island View | 8.7 miles | 12 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q634681 | 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 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.





