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Wenona, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Evans Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61377. The Survey maps it on the Wenona quadrangle. 974 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 694 feet above sea level.

Wenona within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

Wenona fell from 1,056 to 974 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
20101,056
2020974-82 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Wenona between 2008 and 2020, burning about 64 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1400170
27 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1600097
22 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources180083.1
6 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1300058
18 April 2014Debris and open burning30 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1400068
1 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWEEKS
29 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesM A
14 March 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources200009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wenona in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014Thunderstorm WindWenona$80,000Shingle damage occurred to several homes in Wenona. In addition, some fencing was blown down and a few trees were damaged.
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Wenona$40,000A tornado touched down 3.8 miles north-northwest of Wenona in Marshall County, just west of County Road 2900E. Several trees and powerlines were blown down before the tornado crossed into LaSalle County, which is part of National Weather Service Chicago's county warning area.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindWenona$30,000A machine shed and grain bin were damaged 1 mile north of Wenona.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWenona$10,000A semi was blown over on I-39 just north of Wenona.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWenona-Several large tree branches were blown down.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindWenona-Several tree branches were broken in Wenona.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindWenona-Several light poles were blown down in town.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindWenona-A semi was blown over on I-39 one mile south of Wenona.
May 2018HailWenona-no account filed
August 2012HailWenona-no account filed
May 2006HailWenona-no account filed
March 2005HailWenona-no account filed
March 2005HailWenona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Evans3.1 miles13
Custer5.6 miles11
Toluca5.6 miles11
Porterfield6.3 miles11
Varna9.4 miles11
Pattonsburg10.6 miles11
La Rose10.9 miles11
Wilbern16.2 miles18

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 WenonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575413The 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 420750. 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.