Sciota, Illinois

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sciota Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61475. The Survey maps it on the Blandinsville quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Sciota within McDonough County

Population over time

2 figures

Sciota fell from 61 to 38 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	61
2020	38	-23 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS La Harpe quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Blandinsville quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sciota in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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
April 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Sciota	$16,000	An EF-1 tornado occurred just to the NE of Sciota. Tree damage was found at the beginning of the 3 mile track. The tornado then strengthened and snapped power poles and eventually destroyed a farm outbuilding, with an max estimated speed of 100 MPH.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	$5,000	At the intersection of highway 9 and 650th street. Trees and power lines down with water greater than curb deep.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	$1,000	Local law enforcement reported a telephone pole was blown over with wires down across the road.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	-	Report of powerlines down on a car with the driver trapped near the West Prairie High School. Time estimated by radar.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	-	Several tree trunks snapped, with winds winds estimated near 100 mph.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	-	Several two inch diameter tree limbs were knocked down. Corn was broadly flattened for several miles on the south side of Route 9. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	-	A state official reported a power pole and lines down on East 900th and North 2200. The time was estimated by radar.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	-	A trained spotter reported that strong thunderstorm winds brought down branches that were about 2 inches. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Sciota	-	Water flowed over US 67 between Main Street and Vine Street in the town of Good Hope. Water also covered US 67 south the junction with Highway 9. A spotter also reported water in at least one basement in the town of Good Hope.
December 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Sciota	-	An EF-1 tornado, with estimated peak winds of 100 mph, caused damage that consisted of destroyed outbuildings and a snapped off tree along a 8.1 mile path that was 50 yards wide. This tornado traveled into Warren County for another 2.6 miles. The tornado was on the ground for 10.7 miles.
November 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	-	The county emergency manager reported a one mile long path of power poles were down and multiple trees down near Blandinsville.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	-	The fire department reported 65 mph winds with tree damage in the area.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sciota	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McDonough 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Spring Creek Settlement (historical)	2.0 miles	16
Good Hope	4.2 miles	17
Little Ireland (historical)	4.9 miles	20
Blandinsville	6.1 miles	16
Lamone Village	6.6 miles	20
Georgetown	7.1 miles	20
University Village	7.7 miles	20
East Village	7.7 miles	20

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 Sciota	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2291446	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 418127. 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.