Sorento, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Shoal Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62086. The Survey maps it on the Sorento South quadrangle. 429 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresSorento fell from 498 to 429 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 | 498 | |
| 2020 | 429 | -69 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1937 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:48000
- 1937 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS New Douglas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Sorento South quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Carlyle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sorento in 2014, burning about 3 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14065 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sorento: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Richards Brick Co. Shale Mine | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sorento in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado, 2 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Sorento | 4 hurt | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Sorento | $10,000 | The tornado first touched down south of Sorento on New Douglas Road (Bond County), west of Sorento Reservoir, where it snapped several trees. The tornado moved northeast, passing 3.2 miles east of Donnellson crossing Mt. Moriah Avenue, moving into southern Montgomery County. The tornado was rated EF1 in Bond County with a path length of 8.94 miles and a max path width of 150 yards. No injuries or deaths were reported in Bond County. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorento | $5,000 | The county sheriff reported downed power lines and poles near Sorento and Reno. Strong wind gusts and damage occured for nearly ten minutes. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorento | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a phone line near Sorento. |
| April 2013 | Flash Flood | Sorento | - | Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time over Bond County causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including streets in Greenville. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorento | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped several power poles in Sorento. Just north of Greenville, several large trees were snapped and numerous tree limbs were blown down. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorento | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a couple of large trees blocking roads in Sorento. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Sorento | - | Up to five inches of rain fell in a short amount of time on already saturated soils causing flash flooding. Numerous roads were flooded including streets in Greenville and Illinois Route 127 near Reno. Also, Illinois Route 140 between Smithboro and Mulberry Grove had several inches of water flowing over it. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Sorento | - | Up to three inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded due to the heavy rain. Also, two water rescues had to be performed after two vehicles were driven into flooded roadways and became stranded. The first rescue occurred on Old Brushy Road just south of the Bond-Montgomery county line where a pickup truck was stuck in flood water from a nearby creek. The second rescue occurred about a mile to the east of the earlier incident. Another pickup truck was stuck in flood waters on Panama Avenue, about one and a half miles north of Old Panama Avenue. No injuries were reported with either incident. |
| September 2008 | Flood | Sorento | - | Up to 3 inches of rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ike fell onto already saturated soils causing flooding. Numerous roads were flooded countywide. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Sorento | - | The public reported nickel size hail east of Sorento. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Sorento | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorento | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorento | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sorento | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunje | 1.0 miles | 11 | |
| Gilmore | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Panama | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Reno | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Elm Point (historical) | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Paisley Corners | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Ayers | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Old Ripley | 7.1 miles | 11 |
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 Sorento | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q520290 | 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 418708. 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.






