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Seymour, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Scott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61875. It stands on South Fork Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Seymour quadrangle. 317 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Seymour within Champaign County

Population over time

2 figures

Seymour grew from 303 to 317 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
2010303
2020317+14 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Seymour in 2008, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning1

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
10 March 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWF1

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 Seymour: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dale PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Champaign County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seymour in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 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
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Seymour$85,000This tornado crossed from Piatt County into Champaign County 5.5 miles southwest of Seymour at 9:05 PM CDT. It then tracked eastward and hit a farmstead, destroying a barn and a machine shed. Several large trees were also knocked down or damaged at the residence. The tornado then dissipated 5.1 miles south of Seymour at 9:07 PM CDT.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSeymour$62,000Two outbuildings were destroyed and two trees were blown down at 1052 County Road 100 East southwest of Seymour.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSeymour$15,000Several large tree limbs were blown down.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindSeymour$10,000Mature pine trees were snapped.
May 2014Flash FloodSeymour-Persistent rain from numerous thunderstorms tracking over the same areas produced 3.00 to 4.00 inches in less than two hours during the early evening hours. Numerous roads were impassable in Savoy, Tolono and rural areas of south central Champaign County. U.S. Highway 45 and State Route 130 were also significantly impacted and closed in spots.
May 2009Flash FloodSeymour-Water was flowing across multiple roads in Champaign-Urbana.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindSeymour-Four power poles snapped off.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindSeymour-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A semi was blown over at the intersection of I-72 and Highway 47. No injuries were reported.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSeymour-no account filed
May 2024HailSeymour-no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSeymour-no account filed
September 2019HailSeymour-no account filed
April 2015HailSeymour-no account filed
May 2011HailSeymour-no account filed
October 2010HailSeymour-no account filed
August 2003HailSeymour-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
Bondville3.1 miles21
Rising6.0 miles21
Staley6.1 miles21
Mahomet6.2 miles19
Giblin6.3 miles18
Kenwood7.0 miles21
Lake of the Woods7.5 miles21
Champaign9.7 miles24

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 SeymourAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3472053The 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 418244. 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.