Windsor, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61957. The Survey maps it on the Windsor quadrangle. 1,079 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 707 feet above sea level.

Windsor within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Windsor fell from 1,187 to 1,079 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	1,187
2020	1,079	-108 (-9%)

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.

1947 USGS Stewardson quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Stewardson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Windsor quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

1,463 words on this township

Shelby County in the World War, published 1919 names this settlement in its chapter on Windsor Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

E. G. Munsell, president of the Commercial State Bank of Windsor, was chairman of the Third Liberty Loan organization in Shelby County, heading the small army of workers that enlisted to put the county over the top with its quota of $682,050 of the huge total, $3,000,000,000.

Passage source: Shelby County in the World War, published 1919.

Public meetings and patriotic rallies were part of the plan for the campaign, and Mr. Munsell tendered the organization the use of the Windsor Liberty Loan Chorus, which subsequently did valiant service, as did the Liberty Chorus of Shelbyville.

Passage source: Shelby County in the World War, published 1919.

The work progressed splendidly. Even before the opening of the drive officially on April 6, public meetings were held at various points and in one of these on the eve of the campaign, Windsor went "over the top" with her complete allotment, adding $15.000 at that time to $64,000 previously subscribed, and thus putting her $1.000 above the $78,000 asked of her.

Passage source: Shelby County in the World War, published 1919.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Windsor Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$3,200,000	Hundreds of trees were uprooted in the town of Windsor. Several trees and large branches damaged about 200 house roofs in town. The strong wind also blew shingles off of many houses. One house on the west side of town was pushed several inches off of its foundation. Power poles snapped, power lines were knocked down and a few flag poles were bent.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$50,000	Four power poles and a 14-inch diameter tree were snapped off. In addition, grain bins were destroyed and a machine shed had its roof torn off.
June 2010	Lightning	Windsor	$45,000	Lightning struck a dairy barn, which started a fire. The barn was destroyed. No livestock were harmed in the fire.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$25,000	Several power poles and power lines were blown down. The siding was torn off a trailer.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$20,000	A tree fell onto a house in Windsor.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$18,000	Several trees and tree limbs were blown down across Windsor.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$10,000	Power lines were blown down in Windsor.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$8,000	A 2-foot diameter tree was blown down. Numerous tree branches were knocked down as well, many of which blocked roads.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$8,000	A fence was knocked over and numerous tree branches were blown down.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$2,000	A 6 to 8-inch diameter tree branch was blown onto a power line.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	$2,000	A tree was uprooted in Windsor.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	Numerous tree branches and power lines were blown down.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	Several trees were blown down and power poles were bent along Route 16 just northeast of Windsor.
December 2021	Tornado (EF2)	Windsor	-	A tornado touched down 1 mile south of Windsor at 9:50 PM CST. The tornado stripped roof panels off a farm outbuilding, then tracked northeastward and strengthened causing total destruction of a small farm outbuilding and breaking wood power poles southeast of Windsor. It crossed into southern Moultrie County about 1 mile southwest of Gays just south of Route 16 at 9:54 PM CST.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	A small boat was overturned.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Windsor	-	Slow moving thunderstorms produced 2 to 4 inches of rain in a two hour period during the late afternoon in eastern Shelby County. Most roads between the town of Windsor and the Effingham County line were impassable. One foot of water was reported on Illinois Route 32 near the Shelby-Effingham County line. The flooding subsided by late evening.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	Power poles were blown down and part of a machine shed was damaged east of Windsor.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	A large tree was blown over and a machine shed was damaged.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	Several large tree limbs were blown down and corn was blown over.\|
May 2003	Flash Flood	Windsor	-	Very heavy rain fell over Shelby county, causing several roads to be flooded in the Windsor area.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Windsor	-	Thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto a mobile home causing some damage. No one was injured and no damage estimate was available. Also, numerous large trees limbs were blown down which caused scattered power outages in the area.
March 2024	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed
March 2006	Hail	Windsor	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sexson Corner	5.4 miles	12
Strasburg	6.2 miles	12
Lithia	6.6 miles	14
Middlesworth	6.7 miles	14
South Strasburg	6.7 miles	12
Herborn	9.7 miles	12
Kingman	9.9 miles	12
Trowbridge	9.9 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 Windsor	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575938	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 421317. 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.