BlockWaverly, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Waverly No. 2 precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62692. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle. 1,194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 678 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWaverly fell from 1,307 to 1,194 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 | 1,307 | |
| 2020 | 1,194 | -113 (-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.
- 1924 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1926 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waverly in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Waverly | $129,000 | The tornado touched down in an open field 3 miles west-southwest of Waverly at 7:17 pm CDT. During the early part of the tornado track, the storm snapped trees along a 1.5 mile path, before producing minor damage to the roofs of a house and garage. The tornado then increased in width and intensity around 7:20 pm. It damaged two houses and a pole barn, and destroyed a garage, shed, pole barn, and two grain bins. The tornado crossed Illinois route 111 about a mile south of Waverly, and continued southeast across 1.5 miles of open farm land, before crossing into Sangamon County around 7:23 pm. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Waverly | - | Apple Creek spilled out of its banks and flowed across Route 111 southwest of Waverly. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines in town. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waverly | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines and power poles in Waverly. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Waverly | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Waverly | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appalokia (historical) | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Rohrer | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Centerville | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Franklin | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Yeomans | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Rees | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Nortonville | 10.1 miles | 12 | |
| Alexander | 10.2 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 Waverly | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q576552 | 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 420657. 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.