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Woodhull, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Clover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61490. The Survey maps it on the Woodhull quadrangle. 754 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Woodhull within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodhull fell from 811 to 754 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
2010811
2020754-57 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

6,341 words on this township

History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Clover Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

FAY LUCIUS, P.O. Woodhull, Sec. 34, Farmer; born in Rockingham, Windham Co. Vt Oct. 5, 1824; came to this Co. in Dec. 1853, and is among the oldest settlers; has family five children, Frank T., Mary A., Geo., Ida. Charley; wife was Miss Emeline Cone, from the same place, born Sept. 16, 1833, married Feb. 28. 1855; has 40 acres, value $2,000; Hep.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877.

FORGY WM. P.O. Woodhull; Sec. 8; Farmer and Stock Raiser; born in Morrow Co. Ohio,' May 27, 1826; came to this county April, 1853, and is among the oldest settlers; has family of five children, Allen T., Nellie J., Ralph J., Wm. Henry and Robert J.; wife was Miss Eye Moody, born in the same place, Feb. 14, 1830; married Feb. 22, 1854; has 400 acres, value $24.000; was Supervisor three terms and held other town offices; Ind; both member* of the Meth. Epis Church.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877.

MILLER M. Sec. 10; P.O. Woodhull; school teacher; Rep; from Ohio; 40 ac. val. $2.000. HORN J. W., P.O. Woodhull; retired; Rep; from England; owns 160 acres on Sec. 30. HILLERY HERMAN, Sec. 24; P.O. Necoma; rents of A. Maile; Rep; from 111. HOUGH F. L. Wondhull; grain dealer; Rep; from 111.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Illinois : It's Taxpayers and Voters; Containing Also, a Biographical Directory, a Condensed History of the State; Map of the County; a Business Directory...etc, published 1877.

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 Clover Township - it names this place 53 more 53 times.

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodhull in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 2 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
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWoodhull$5,0008 inch diameter limbs down with 0.79 inches of rain in 10 minutes.
March 2006HailWoodhull$4,000Penny to Quarter sized hail rapidly covering the ground
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWoodhull$2,000Wrist sized limbs down
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWoodhull$1,000The co-operative observer reported 3 inch diameter limbs down with a larger tree down in town.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindWoodhull-A trained spotter reported a roof off of a barn with damage to outbuildings.
April 2023Tornado (EF0)Woodhull-A brief tornado began just east of I-74 north of Woodhull, damaging trees, a few outbuildings, and a home in its path. A home lost some shingles and partial roof on one side of the residence. Large tree branches snapped on farmstead property. The tornado was on the ground for around 3 miles and was 50 yards wide. The tornado was rated EF0 with maximum winds around 85 mph.
June 2015HailWoodhull-A large amount of penny size hail was reported.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWoodhull-Report of a semi truck overturned on Interstate 74 just north of Woodhull.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodhull-Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down several 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs in Woodhull, IL around 615 am July 21.
April 2000Funnel CloudWoodhull-Funnel cloud reported by emergency management.
May 2011HailWoodhull-no account filed
June 2005Funnel CloudWoodhull-no account filed
May 2004HailWoodhull-no account filed
August 2003Funnel CloudWoodhull-no account filed
May 2000Tornado (F0)Woodhull-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindWoodhull-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Alpha3.5 miles11
Oxford (historical)6.2 miles11
Ophiem6.3 miles12
Nekoma6.8 miles14
Andover8.0 miles11
Lynn Center8.4 miles11
Bishop Hill10.6 miles14
Cambridge10.8 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 WoodhullAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1880101The 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 421425. 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.