BlockTovey, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1998. It stands in South Fork Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62570. The Survey maps it on the Kincaid quadrangle. 464 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 601 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresTovey fell from 512 to 464 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 | 512 | |
| 2020 | 464 | -48 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1923 USGS Taylorville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1925 USGS Taylorville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Kincaid quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Kincaid quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tovey in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 2 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tovey | $100,000 | Several large tree branches were blown down. A few caused minor roof damage to homes. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Tovey | $90,000 | A tornado touched down 4 miles southwest of Kincaid at 517 PM CST. It destroyed several grain bins and a large farm storage building before dissipating 2.5 miles south-southwest of Kincaid at 520 PM CST. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tovey | - | Several 4-inch diameter tree branches were blown into power lines. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Tovey | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Tovey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tovey Humphrey Station | 0.1 miles | 13 | |
| Bulpitt | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Sicily | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Kincaid | 2.2 miles | 13 | |
| Jeisyville | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Ellis | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Langleyville | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Sharpsburg | 5.8 miles | 12 |
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 Tovey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672142 | 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 1669480. 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.