Shumway, Illinois
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Banner Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62461. The Survey maps it on the Shumway quadrangle. 188 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresShumway fell from 202 to 188 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 | 202 | |
| 2020 | 188 | -14 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1950 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Shumway quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Shumway quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Shumway in 2013, burning about 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13011 |
| 16 November 2013 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13029 |
| 20 October 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13023 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shumway in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shumway | $60,000 | Several trees were blown into power lines and one house was damaged in Shumway. |
| November 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shumway | $20,000 | A power pole, power lines, and several tree branches were blown down in Shumway. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shumway | $10,000 | A semi trailer was blown over on Route 33. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shumway | $2,000 | A large tree was blown down on Highway 33 just east of Shumway. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Shumway | - | Numerous roads from Effingham to Dietrich were flooded, including Highway 33. The Dietrich Apartments were flooded. In addition, 20 homes in Dietrich were flooded...including 12 with water in their living areas. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Shumway | - | Slow moving thunderstorms produced 3.00 to 4.00 inches of rain in about three hours during the late afternoon and early evening of May 29th. This resulted in rapid flash flooding of nearly all rural roads in northern Effingham County. Spotters reported two feet of water on streets in parts of Effingham and Teutopolis. The flooding subsided in most locations before midnight. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Shumway | - | Slow moving thunderstorms produced 2 to 4 inches of rain in a two hour period during the late afternoon in northern and eastern Effingham County. Rural roads near the Shelby County line, as well as in eastern sections between Dieterich and the Clay County line, were impassable. The flooding subsided by late evening. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Shumway | - | Nearly 2.50 of rain was measured in one hour two miles west of Effingham. Numerous roads were impassable in the city of Effingham and in rural areas to the west of the city. Several roads in the vicinity of Lake Sara were closed due to high water. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shumway | - | Numerous trees were blown down, as well as tree limbs. One large tree limb landed on a truck and damaged it. Also, the front porch on one house sustained minor damage. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Shumway | - | IL Route 33 was flooded near Shumway due to heavy rains. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shumway | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees and power lines in the Shumway area and damaged a couple of sheds. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Shumway | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Shumway | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Point | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Holland | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Moccasin | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Ewington | 6.4 miles | 15 | |
| Funkhouser | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Green Creek | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Beecher City | 7.1 miles | 12 | |
| Effingham | 7.3 miles | 15 |
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 Shumway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2483798 | 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 418483. 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.
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.






