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Strasburg, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62465. The Survey maps it on the Stewardson East quadrangle. 531 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Strasburg within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Strasburg grew from 467 to 531 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
2010467
2020531+64 (+14%)

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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Strasburg between 2013 and 2014, burning about 64 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 April 2013Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13004
22 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources14006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Strasburg: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
S & V Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Strasburg in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 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 2018Thunderstorm WindStrasburg$35,000Five power poles were snapped near the junction of Routes 32 and 16.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindStrasburg$30,000A shed was damaged and an attic vent was blown off a house. Several tree branches were blown down as well.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindStrasburg$25,000Several trees were damaged.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStrasburg$10,000Several large tree limbs and a power pole were blown down in Strasburg.
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Strasburg-The tornado began near county road 1175N, damaging a few trees and destroying a small shed. It then traveled north-northeast, destroying a large pole barn near county road 1300N and North 2900 East Road. As the tornado continued northeast, it destroyed two grain bins and snapped over a half dozen power poles. It uprooted multiple hardwood trees about a quarter mile west of county road 3000E before dissipating.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStrasburg-Trees and power lines down. A few shingles removed from structures. A machine shed door was blown off.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindStrasburg-Tree limbs, 12 to 18 inches in diameter, snapped. A few trees uprooted, photos provided from the next morning show a few inches of standing water around the uprooted trees. A few rows of corn flattened. All damage was blown in a westerly direction.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindStrasburg-Shingles were blown off a house roof, doors were torn off an outbuilding, and several 10-inch diameter tree branches were blown down west of Strasburg.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindStrasburg-A CB tower was blown over onto a house causing minor damage. No injuries were reported.

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
South Strasburg0.5 miles12
Herborn3.5 miles12
Kingman4.8 miles12
Sexson Corner5.9 miles12
Trowbridge6.1 miles12
Stewardson6.2 miles12
Windsor6.2 miles12
Middlesworth6.6 miles14

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 StrasburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2104039The 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 419203. 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.