BlockWellington, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lovejoy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60973. The Survey maps it on the Wellington quadrangle. 206 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWellington fell from 242 to 206 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 | 242 | |
| 2020 | 206 | -36 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1938 USGS Milford quadrangle1:48000
- 1944 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellington in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Wellington | $20,000 | Four farms were impacted with several large trees down or snapped. One outbuilding had its roof torn off. Maximum winds were estimated to 80 mph. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Wellington | - | Vermillion County EMA also reported 55 mph winds. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Wellington | - | Some crop damage was caused by hail up to the size of half dollars. |
| May 2006 | Flash Flood | Wellington | - | Several roads flooded in rural Wellington Lovejoy Township, one foot deep near 2400E and 200N. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellington | - | Eleven utility poles were blown down along a half mile of County Road 500N. Power lines and tree limbs were also blown down. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Wellington | - | There were public sightings of a tornado touching down briefly near Wellington. There was no damage. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellington | - | Power poles were downed by winds at Buckley and a garage was destroyed at Wellington. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Wellington | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wellington | - | 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.
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 Wellington | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671984 | 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 420732. 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.