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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.

Wenonah within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Wenonah 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.

YearPeople Change
201037
202032-5 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2013

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
8 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBLAND1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Central Ill. Stone Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Msc Yard #15.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Nokomis Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tri-City Christian Quarry No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tri-County Stone Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

4 since 2021

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2023Thunderstorm WindWenonah$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs and caused some minor shingle damage to the roof of the house.
April 2026Flash FloodWenonah-Heavy rain flooded roads along East 23rd Road outside of Nokomis.
May 2023HailWenonah-no account filed
May 2021HailWenonah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Nokomis1.8 miles12
Coalton3.1 miles12
Ohlman3.9 miles11
Witt5.8 miles12
Irving10.4 miles10
Harvel13.1 miles13
Schram City14.6 miles10
Fillmore14.6 miles11

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 WenonahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q535662The 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.