Stewardson, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62463. The Survey maps it on the Stewardson West quadrangle. 721 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 647 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresStewardson fell from 734 to 721 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 | 734 | |
| 2020 | 721 | -13 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1947 USGS Stewardson quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Stewardson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Stewardson West quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Stewardson West quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stewardson between 2013 and 2014, burning about 71 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13011 |
| 5 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13004 |
| 26 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14007 |
| 22 March 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 14006 |
| 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
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stewardson in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stewardson | $400,000 | A downburst impacted Stewardson. Numerous trees were blown down across town. Many of the trees fell onto and damaged houses, cars, and sheds. The roofs of a mobile home and an old garage were torn off. Several small metal sheds were destroyed and some houses had minor siding damage. The flag pole at the fire department was bent back. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stewardson | $100,000 | Numerous trees, tree limbs, and power lines were blown down in Stewardson. One business on the east side of town was destroyed. Another business sustained minor damage. As the storms moved northeast towards Windsor, eight power poles were snapped off along Route 16 east of Windsor. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stewardson | $30,000 | A grain bin was destroyed about 1 mile south of Stewardson. |
| March 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Stewardson | - | The tornado began near the intersection of county roads 100N and 2700E, about two miles south-southwest of Stewardson, where a hardwood tree was uprooted and the northeast side of the roof of a farm outbuilding was peeled off. The tornado crossed county road 2700E and struck a larger farm complex where a large farm building had its walls collapse and strewn about three-quarters of a mile to the northeast. The tornado crossed county road 2800E, damaging a small farm outbuilding. It continued northeast, uprooting a few large hardwood trees just north of county roads 300N and 3000E before dissipating. |
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Stewardson | - | Water was flowing across Route 32 south of Stewardson. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Stewardson | - | High water was reported over Centerline Road, about 3 miles southwest of Neoga. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Stewardson | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Stewardson | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Hail | Stewardson | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herborn | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Kingman | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Mode | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| South Strasburg | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Strasburg | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Trowbridge | 6.8 miles | 12 | |
| Fancher | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Sigel | 7.6 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 Stewardson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2633513 | 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 419122. 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.






