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Woodlawn, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Shiloh Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62898. The Survey maps it on the Woodlawn quadrangle. 617 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Woodlawn within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodlawn fell from 698 to 617 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
2010698
2020617-81 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

7,068 words on this township

History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Shiloh Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Louis, and graduated from the medical college of the latter place in 1880. He first began the practice of medicine in 1867 in Dunklin County, Mo, In 1868, he returned to his native county and located in Woodlawn, where he has since remained, with the exception of two years spent in Colorado. He was married in Woodlawn in 1S70, to Miss Melissa, daughter of William Wood, for whom the town of Woodlawn was named. This union has been blessed with the following children: Elizabeth Neva and Thomas Bertrand. The Doctor is an enterprising, public-spirited citizen, and is an honor to the profession to which he is devoted. He is a member of the A., F. & A. M. , and a Democrat in politics.

Passage source: History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1883.

WILLIAM WEATHERFOED, farmer, P. O. Woodlawn, was born in White County, Tenn., April 15, 1832, son of James and Rebecca Weatherford, natives of South Carolina, who came to this county in 1856 from Tennessee. She died when our subject was small, he March 5, 1875. Our subject was reared in Tennessee, and his life has been spent in different places and engaged in various business pursuits. For a number of years he lived in Mount Vernon and in Colorado, etc. In the fall of 1866, he bought his present farm in partnership with his brother, M. C. His brother died in 1876, and onr subject has since piu'chased the entire farm of 240 acres. He did not remain on the farm all the time till 1880; now, however, he gives his entire attention to it. Mr. Weatherford is not a member of any society, but is always ready to aid the furtherance of any good enterprise. In politics, he associates with the Republican party.

Passage source: History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1883.

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 Shiloh Township - it names this place 9 more 9 times.

Storms near this place

28 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodlawn in 28 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 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 2011Tornado (EF2)Woodlawn$4,000,000At least three houses lost portions of roof substructure, including roof decking. Numerous other homes sustained various degrees of shingle damage. Some houses lost siding. A total of 101 residences sustained damage, with 23 of those homes deemed uninhabitable. A folded up pop-up camper and adjacent shed were blown 50 to 75 feet. Dozens of trees and power poles were snapped. A twin-pole wooden tower carrying high-voltage power lines was leaning. The community of Boyd was directly impacted. In Boyd, a large machine shed/sawmill was destroyed. A church lost some shingles and roofing. There were numerous eyewitnesses and at least one photo of the tornado funnel. Peak winds were estimated near 115 mph. The average path width was 200 yards.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Woodlawn$100,000From Washington County, the tornado entered western Jefferson County about 5 miles south of where Interstate 64 crosses the county line, then moved northeast across the interstate near the Woodlawn exit. A semi was blown off the interstate near the exit. The tornado passed just south of Dix, then lifted north of Texico, less than 2 miles from the Marion County line. Damage in this very rural area consisted of numerous trees down and destroyed sheds and barns. About two dozen houses sustained damage, mostly due to trees falling on them. Many trees were on power lines, and power poles were snapped. The damage path was not continuous. The tornado was rated F-1 for just a brief portion of its track, where maximum winds were estimated near 110 MPH.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$30,000In Mount Vernon, numerous tree limbs and wires were blown down, along with one power pole. Streets were blocked by downed limbs and wires. Some businesses received minor damage, such as ripped awnings and fallen gutters. An antenna with its 30-foot tower was brought down at a city residence. A fence was blown over. Elsewhere in the county, a couple of trees were blown down in Woodlawn and Nason.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$20,000Scattered tree damage was reported across the county. Large limbs were down between Woodlawn and Mt. Vernon. Structural damage to outbuildings was reported near Waltonville. A wind gust to 78 mph was measured at the Mt. Vernon airport.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$15,000Near Woodlawn, a semi was overturned on Interstate 64 at mile marker 61. A tree and power lines were down across a street in Woodlawn.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$6,000A carport and awning received moderate damage.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$5,000Several trees were blown down or snapped off. Transformers were blown out.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$3,000Estimated winds near 60 MPH downed a few power lines.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$2,000Several trees were blown down.
January 2005Heavy RainWoodlawn$2,000Two feet of water was reported over low water crossings on two small roads. The Woodlawn Grade School was closed after two feet of water flooded the boiler room. Area drainage systems were unable to handle the combined snowmelt and heavy rainfall.
March 2024HailWoodlawn-Quarter sized hail was measured just SW of Mount Vernon and estimated north of Woodlawn and Belle Rive as a storm tracked along the path from Woodlawn to Belle Rive into Wayne County. No damages from this storm were attributed to hail.
April 2024HailWoodlawn-A line of storms moving eastward produced half-dollar size hail in Woodlawn.
September 2022FloodWoodlawn-Standing water was reported on eastbound Interstate 64 between Woodlawn and Mt. Vernon, as well as southbound Interstate 57 at the Interstate 64 interchange south of Mt. Vernon. Both spots are typical flood-prone areas.
June 2015Heavy RainWoodlawn-Five miles east of Mount Vernon, the storm-total rainfall was 4.30 inches. In Woodlawn, four inches of rain was reported. Most of this rain fell in a three-hour window during the early morning hours. A few secondary roads were flooded countywide.
September 2015Heavy RainWoodlawn-A trained spotter reported a storm-total rainfall of 3.10 inches in 24 hours.
December 2015Heavy RainWoodlawn-A four-day storm total of 5.0 inches was reported by the public.
April 2013HailWoodlawn-Ping pong ball size hail was reported.
January 2013Flash FloodWoodlawn-Water was over the roadway on Illinois Highway 15.
February 2006HailWoodlawn-Dime to quarter size hail occurred in western Jefferson County.
April 2006HailWoodlawn-Quarter size hail covered the ground in Woodlawn. There were numerous reports of quarter size hail in Mount Vernon, with one report of 1.5 inch hail. Golf ball size hail was reported two miles north of Mount Vernon.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-Winds gusted from 60 to around 70 MPH in the Woodlawn area. A spotter measured a wind gust to 72 MPH about two miles north of Woodlawn.
April 2018HailWoodlawn-no account filed
March 2015HailWoodlawn-no account filed
April 2009HailWoodlawn-no account filed
August 2008HailWoodlawn-no account filed
April 2006HailWoodlawn-no account filed
April 2005Funnel CloudWoodlawn-no account filed
May 2004HailWoodlawn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Drivers2.1 miles12
Roaches2.3 miles9
Jefferson City3.4 miles9
Webster Hill Estates5.6 miles12
Marcoe5.6 miles12
Boyd5.9 miles9
Idlewood6.8 miles12
Mount Vernon6.9 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 WoodlawnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2513151The 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 421448. 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.