BlockWitt, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Witt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62094. The Survey maps it on the Nokomis quadrangle. 785 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 664 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWitt fell from 903 to 785 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 | 903 | |
| 2020 | 785 | -118 (-13%) |
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
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Witt in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Witt | 1 hurt, $3,300 | A mobile home was blown over injuring a man inside. Several grain bins and small sheds were damaged with numerous power lines down. Reported by SKYWARN spotters and a local newspaper. |
| September 2021 | Flash Flood | Witt | - | Up to four inches of rain fell in a short amount of time causing flash flooding. Several roads were flooded in Irving and Witt. Also, Coffeen Road, and Filmore Trail were briefly flooded. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Witt | - | Thunderstorm wind blew down a tree onto a power line in town. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Witt | - | Several large trees, numerous tree limbs and several power lines were blown down in Witt, Irving and Hillsboro. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Witt | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large tree limbs. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Witt | - | The roof and part of the wall of a building collapsed from thunderstorm wind gusts. Part of the roof blew across the street and damaged another building. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Witt | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed some large tree limbs. |
| November 2013 | Hail | Witt | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Witt | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Witt | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Witt | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Witt | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coalton | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Nokomis | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Irving | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Wenonah | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| Schram City | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Ohlman | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Hillsboro Heights | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Hillsboro | 10.1 miles | 10 |
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 Witt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q579969 | 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 421359. 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.