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Tolono, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Tolono Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61880. The Survey maps it on the Tolono quadrangle. 3,604 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Tolono within Champaign County

Population over time

2 figures

Tolono grew from 3,447 to 3,604 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
20103,447
20203,604+157 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Storms near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tolono in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 4 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTolono$60,000Multiple trees and power lines were blown down across Tolono.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTolono$60,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Tolono. One tree fell onto a house.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindTolono$50,000A shed was destroyed by high winds in Tolono. Trees were blown down and minor damage occurred to the roof of a home 1 mile east of Tolono.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindTolono$40,000Several trees and power lines were blown down. Also, a gas station awning was damaged in Tolono and an outbuilding was damaged in Sidney.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindTolono$30,000A large tree was blown onto a train in Tolono. A 6-foot tree was split in half and numerous small branches were blown down around town.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindTolono$3,000A 16-inch diameter tree was blown across the road at 2nd and Main Street in Tolono.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindTolono$2,000A tree was blown down in Tolono.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindTolono$1,000Road signs were blown down at the corner of 1200E and 700N near Tolono.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindTolono-A tree was blown down onto a home.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindTolono-A fence and roof were damaged and several trees and power poles were blown down.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTolono-Several areas of corn were flattened along Route 45 from Tolono southward to Pesotum.
May 2024Flash FloodTolono-The road was impassable between 1000E and 1100E.
May 2024Flash FloodTolono-A road was impassable due to flooding between 600N and 700N roads.
May 2024Flash FloodTolono-Multiple roads closed due to flooding, including Vine Street, Pease Street, Walnut Street, and Condit Street.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindTolono-Several power poles were blown down along US-45. Cornfields were flattened, and tree branches were blown down at East Side Park.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindTolono-Several 6-inch diameter tree limbs were broken.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindTolono-Eight power poles were blown down.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindTolono-Numerous tree limbs were blown down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindTolono-A large tree was snapped.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindTolono-A tree was snapped at the base in Tolono.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTolono-Several tree limbs were blown down in Tolono.
August 2010Flash FloodTolono-Isolated, slow moving thunderstorm produced copious amounts of rain in a small part of south central Champaign County. Rainfall rates of 1.50 to 2.00 inches of rain for nearly two hours produced flash flooding which inundated several rural roads and parts of U.S. Route 45 south of Tolono.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Tolono-The tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Tolono-A tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported.
June 2004Flash FloodTolono-Several roads were briefly flooded due to heavy rains.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Tolono-A tornado briefly touched down in a field just outside of Tolono. No injuries or damage were reported.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTolono-Several trees and power lines were blown down in Tolono and Sidney.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Tolono-A tornado briefly touched down in Tolono on the west side near the park. It travelled to the east southeast for about half a mile knocking down numerous trees, tree limbs, and power lines before lifting and dissipating. A few of the trees landed on homes causing light to moderate damage. No damage estimate was available. No injuries or deaths were reported.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTolono-A large tree was blown down in Tolono. No injuries or structural damage were reported.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindTolono-Thunderstorm winds destroyed 10 mini-warehouse structures, blowing them onto the railroad tracks nearby. No one was injured and no damage estimate was available.
April 2017HailTolono-no account filed
April 2017HailTolono-no account filed
April 2017HailTolono-no account filed
May 2014HailTolono-no account filed
May 2000HailTolono-no account filed
April 1999HailTolono-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Champaign 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
Savoy4.7 miles21
Sadorus4.8 miles14
Pesotum5.0 miles14
Philo5.5 miles24
Jimtown8.0 miles14
Giblin8.1 miles18
Sloan Station8.1 miles14
Bongard8.3 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 TolonoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671721The 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 425697. 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.

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.