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Sidney, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sidney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61877. It stands on Rush Branch. The Survey maps it on the Saint Joseph quadrangle. 1,208 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Sidney within Champaign County

Population over time

2 figures

Sidney fell from 1,233 to 1,208 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
20101,233
20201,208-25 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

Storms near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sidney in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSidney$60,000Numerous tree branches were blown down in Sidney. A grain bin was blown down at 1876 County Road 700N and power lines were knocked down at 1725 County Road 900N.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSidney$40,000Tree damage and power outages were reported in Sidney.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSidney$35,000Numerous trees and tree branches were blown down in Sidney. In addition, minor damage occurred to a large grain storage facility just outside of town.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSidney$20,000Numerous tree branches were blown down.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSidney$15,000A few trees were topped and several power lines were blown down just south of Sidney. In addition, a corn field was flattened.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSidney$15,000Several tree limbs were blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSidney$10,000Numerous large tree branches were blown down and portions of cornfields were bent or flattened.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSidney$8,000A tree branch was blown onto a vehicle on County Road 1100 North about 1.5 miles north of Sidney.
June 2004Tornado (F1)Sidney$5,000A tornado touched down 3 miles south southeast of Sidney and traveled to the southeast. As it neared the intersection of county road 600 N and 2300 E it blew out several windows of a house and took the roof off of a barn. Also, a chicken house was blown away. Several power lines and tree limbs were blown down as well. The tornado lifted and dissipated 4 miles north of Broadlands. No injuries were reported.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSidney$3,000A 1-foot diameter tree was blown down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSidney-Several large tree branches were blown down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSidney-A grain storage facility collapsed. Several trees, tree branches, and power lines were blown down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSidney-A large tree was blown down.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Sidney-A tornado briefly touched down in a field west of Sidney. No damage was reported.
February 2008Flash FloodSidney-Salt Fork River was over its banks near Sidney. Also, many streets in Sidney had over a foot of water flowing across them, causing multiple stalled cars.
November 2004Tornado (F0)Sidney-A tornado touched down 3 miles west northwest of Sidney. Two barns were destroyed and one home sustained minor damage. The tornado lifted 3.2 miles northwest of Sidney. No injuries were reported.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSidney-Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree limbs and power lines in Sidney.
March 2025HailSidney-no account filed
September 2022HailSidney-no account filed
September 2017HailSidney-no account filed
April 2013HailSidney-no account filed
September 2012HailSidney-no account filed
May 2011HailSidney-no account filed
May 2011HailSidney-no account filed
April 2006HailSidney-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
Rutherford1.1 miles19
Deers3.3 miles19
Tipton3.7 miles19
Block4.0 miles11
Philo4.7 miles24
Homer6.1 miles15
Fulls6.2 miles19
Saint Joseph6.2 miles19

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 SidneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2614398The 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 418492. 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.