Wenonah, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Nokomis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62075. The Survey maps it on the Nokomis quadrangle. 32 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 674 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWenonah fell from 37 to 32 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 | 37 | |
| 2020 | 32 | -5 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1946 USGS Nokomis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Nokomis quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Nokomis quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1998 USGS Nokomis quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wenonah in 2013, burning about 1 acre 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BLAND1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wenonah: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Ill. Stone Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Msc Yard #15. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Nokomis Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Tri-City Christian Quarry No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Tri-County Stone Company Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wenonah in 4 storm reports between 2021 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wenonah | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs and caused some minor shingle damage to the roof of the house. |
| April 2026 | Flash Flood | Wenonah | - | Heavy rain flooded roads along East 23rd Road outside of Nokomis. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Wenonah | - | no account filed |
| May 2021 | Hail | Wenonah | - | 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 Wenonah | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q535662 | 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 420751. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.






