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Woodland, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Belmont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60974. It stands on Jefferson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle. 248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Woodland within Iroquois County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodland fell from 324 to 248 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
2010324
2020248-76 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Woodland in 2011, burning about 4 acres 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/undetermined2

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
29 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1029112
23 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources102311

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iroquois 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 Woodland: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Iroquis Cty Hwy DeptStonePast Producer
Watseka City Eng PitStonePast Producer
Gray PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hocutt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iroquois County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodland in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2005LightningWoodland$100,000A lightning bolt struck a house and caused significant damage to the house and its contents. No one was injured.
April 2026Tornado (EF0)Woodland-A brief EF-0 tornado caused damage to trees and outbuildings near and northeast of Woodland.
April 2026Tornado (EF1)Woodland-An EF-1 tornado appeared to touch down in an open field southwest of the intersection of E 1200 North Road and N 2450 East Road and impacted a farm, leading to damage to several structures. The tornado then continued northeastward, causing damage to trees and farm outbuildings. The peak intensity of the tornado occurred near the end of the path along the Iroquois and Newton County border, where over a dozen new wooden power poles were snapped at their base. The tornado then appeared to lift just northeast of US-24 in southwestern Newton County.
June 2017Flash FloodWoodland-Heavy rain caused flash flooding across parts of southeast Iroquois County where many roads were flooded. A viaduct just north of Milford was flooded and closed. Storm total rainfall amounts included 3.50 inches in Danforth and 3.30 inches two miles south southwest of Watseka.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWoodland-A large tree was blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodland-A small tree was blown down.
June 2024HailWoodland-no account filed
April 2000HailWoodland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iroquois 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
Woodland Junction1.2 miles12
Coaler2.3 miles12
Watseka4.3 miles11
Schwer4.8 miles12
Bryce5.7 miles12
Milford6.2 miles12
Eastburn6.5 miles11
Darrow6.8 miles12

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 WoodlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672031The 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 421427. 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.