Thomasboro, Illinois
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Rantoul Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61878. The Survey maps it on the Thomasboro quadrangle. 1,034 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresThomasboro fell from 1,126 to 1,034 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 | 1,126 | |
| 2020 | 1,034 | -92 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 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.
- 1906 USGS Urbana quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1957 USGS Thomasboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Urbana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Thomasboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Champaign quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1998 USGS Thomasboro quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Thomasboro in 2014, burning about 50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 77 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomasboro in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF3) | Thomasboro | 6 hurt, $60,000,000 | A tornado touched down in an open field about 1 mile SE of Thomasboro at 12:45 PM CST and rapidly moved to the northeast. In less than a minute it increased in intensity, causing damage to 3 nearby farms and pushing 2 farm houses off their foundations. The tornado moved through open fields for about 2 miles at which time it widened to nearly 1/4 mile wide and became wrapped in rain. It destroyed 3 homes, several outbuildings, and damaged a few other homes before it moved into the town of Gifford. The rain-wrapped tornado was about 1/2 mile wide when it moved through the center of Gifford. Nearly 30 homes were destroyed, more than 40 suffered major damage, and around 125 had minor damage. Around 15 businesses sustained moderate to major damage and the roof of a school was peeled back. Hundreds of vehicles were damaged or destroyed. The tornado tracked for another 5 miles to the northeast, destroying 3 homes and numerous outbuildings, damaging several other homes, and snapping many trees and power poles. The tornado crossed into Vermilion County about 3 miles NNE of Penfield at 1:00 PM CST. Six people were injured and total damage was estimated at $60 million. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thomasboro | $175,000 | Multiple structures were damaged on the southeast side of Thomasboro. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thomasboro | $10,000 | A semi was blown over on I-57 about 2 miles south of Thomasboro. |
| November 2010 | Lightning | Thomasboro | $10,000 | Lightning started a fire in a house between the kitchen and garage. The damage was confined to the area near the lightning strike. There were no injuries reported. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thomasboro | - | Numerous tree branches were blown down. Power poles were leaning, creating a power outage in town. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thomasboro | - | Several large tree limbs were blown down in Thomasboro. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Thomasboro | - | Awning torn off gas station. |
| May 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Thomasboro | - | A tornado briefly touched down in a field 1.5 miles northwest of Thomasboro. No injuries or damage were reported. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Thomasboro | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Thomasboro | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Thomasboro | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Thomasboro | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leverett | 3.9 miles | 23 | |
| Rantoul | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Prospect | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Sellers | 5.7 miles | 20 | |
| Tomlinson | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Flatville | 6.6 miles | 20 | |
| Augerville | 7.1 miles | 23 | |
| Wilbur Heights | 7.4 miles | 23 |
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 Thomasboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671943 | 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 419664. 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.









