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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.

Stewardson within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Stewardson 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.

YearPeople Change
2010734
2020721-13 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

6 since 2013

Regional 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
30 May 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13011
5 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13004
26 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14007
22 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14006
16 November 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13029
20 October 2013Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13023

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015Thunderstorm WindStewardson$400,000A 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 1999Thunderstorm WindStewardson$100,000Numerous 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 2013Thunderstorm WindStewardson$30,000A grain bin was destroyed about 1 mile south of Stewardson.
March 2025Tornado (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 2022Flash FloodStewardson-Water was flowing across Route 32 south of Stewardson.
July 2008Flash FloodStewardson-High water was reported over Centerline Road, about 3 miles southwest of Neoga.
May 2011HailStewardson-no account filed
April 2006HailStewardson-no account filed
March 1997HailStewardson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Herborn2.7 miles12
Kingman4.5 miles12
Mode5.5 miles12
South Strasburg5.7 miles12
Strasburg6.2 miles12
Trowbridge6.8 miles12
Fancher7.6 miles13
Sigel7.6 miles11

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 StewardsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2633513The 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.