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Tamaroa, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tamaroa No. 2 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62888. The Survey maps it on the Tamaroa quadrangle. 544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Tamaroa within Perry County

On record in Tamaroa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Tamaroa fell from 638 to 544 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
2010638
2020544-94 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tamaroa between 2004 and 2008, burning about 17 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/undetermined2

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
23 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tamaroa in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 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 WindTamaroa$60,000Widespread wind damage occurred across the county. Multiple trees were down, causing numerous power outages. Some entire towns were in the dark, including Tamaroa. At least one tree landed on a structure.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindTamaroa$50,000The county sheriff reported structural damage to several house roofs.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTamaroa$25,000Strong winds accompanied a line of storms across Perry County. Two homes sustained major damage in Du Quoin. Some of the damage was due to trees falling on them. A large tree limb fell through one home. Five miles north-northeast of Tamaroa, a tree fell on a home.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTamaroa$13,000Several trees were blown down. At least two large trees were uprooted, including one tree that landed on an outbuilding. Shingles were blown off a nearby house.
October 2025Thunderstorm WindTamaroa$5,000A tree was snapped off and fell onto a mobile home on Blue Bird Lane on the south side of Tamaroa.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindTamaroa$5,000Trees were reported down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindTamaroa$5,000Tree limbs and power lines were down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindTamaroa$3,000A large tree was blown down, and large limbs fell on a carport.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindTamaroa$3,000Power lines were blown down.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindTamaroa$1,000Power lines were blown down.
August 2025Funnel CloudTamaroa-Broadcast media and emergency management reported a cold air funnel with a shower near Tamaroa.
July 2024FloodTamaroa-The Little Muddy River rose out of its banks due to torrential rainfall in far northern Perry County and areas upstream. During the evening the river was out of its banks at the IL-154 bridge and covering Thompson Rd.
July 2024Flash FloodTamaroa-Water covered Hwy 51 north of Tamaroa. Radar estimated rainfall totals for the morning were 2 inches in Tamaroa and up to 5 inches in far northern portions of Perry County.
July 2024FloodTamaroa-The Beaucoup Creek was out of its banks north of IL-154 and onto a few roadways. Creek levels remained very high into the night.
July 2024Flash FloodTamaroa-Road flooding was reported in northeastern portions of Perry County, including US-51 north of Tamaroa. Radar estimated rainfall totals between 1445-1615CST were around 3 inches just north of Tamaroa and 1.5-2 inches in Tamaroa.
July 2023HailTamaroa-Half dollar to golf ball size hail was reported.
August 2016Flash FloodTamaroa-U.S. Route 51 was closed just south of Tamaroa due to flooding. Water was covering Illinois Route 154 just west of U.S. Highway 51.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindTamaroa-Numerous trees were blown down, including two that blocked U.S. Highway 51.
June 2023HailTamaroa-no account filed
February 2006HailTamaroa-no account filed
April 2005HailTamaroa-no account filed
May 2004Flash FloodTamaroa-no account filed
May 2003Flash FloodTamaroa-no account filed
May 2003HailTamaroa-no account filed
August 1996HailTamaroa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Sunfield5.1 miles10
Holden6.0 miles10
Saint Johns7.4 miles10
Denny8.1 miles12
Todds Mill8.5 miles11
Du Quoin8.7 miles10
Pinckneyville9.0 miles12
Rice9.2 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 TamaroaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2094933The 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 419532. 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.