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Woodson, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Woodson precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62650. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville quadrangle. 498 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Woodson within Morgan County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodson fell from 512 to 498 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
2010512
2020498-14 (-3%)

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.

Fires near this place

12 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Woodson between 2008 and 2019, burning about 48 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
20 September 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources17406 GRASSFIRE
1 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesI72 63
11 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10253
7 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minor4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWEST LAKE
7 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources172
17 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources11181
18 March 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19112 GRASS FIRE 855 MASEY LN
5 November 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWATERTOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woodson: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodson in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood. 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindWoodson$15,000Numerous 3-inch diameter tree branches were blown down just southwest of Woodson.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodson$5,000Powerlines were blown down onto Crow Road and Woodson Blacktop.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindWoodson$5,000Trees were blown down on Route 267 near Winchester blacktop.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWoodson$500Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous power lines in the Woodson and Murrayville areas. No injuries were reported.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWoodson-A machine shed partially collapsed at the intersection of Old Airport Road and Sheehan Road.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindWoodson-A fence was blown down.
May 2020FloodWoodson-Widespread flooding occurred on area roads from the Scott-Morgan County line west of Murrayville eastward to Franklin.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodson-A 6-inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodson-A few power lines blown down.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodson-Several tree limbs blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWoodson-Several power poles were blown down.
June 2019HailWoodson-no account filed
August 2009HailWoodson-no account filed
May 2003HailWoodson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Murrayville3.5 miles12
Davis (historical)3.5 miles12
Clements3.7 miles12
South Jacksonville5.5 miles12
Pisgah5.7 miles12
Nortonville6.2 miles12
Rees6.7 miles12
Jacksonville7.3 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 WoodsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2672153The 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 421489. 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.