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Wyanet, Illinois

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wyanet Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61379. It stands on Maple Grove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wyanet quadrangle. 886 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Wyanet within Bureau County

Population over time

2 figures

Wyanet fell from 991 to 886 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
2010991
2020886-105 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

385 words on this township

Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Wyanet Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Wyanet village was laid out in 185G by Henry King. AVilliam Moffatt put up the iirst house. The Iirst man to establish a place of business was Franklin Crittenden. The first warehouse was erected in 1855. The first carload of grain was shipped in 1854 by AVilliam Moffett. The village was first incorporated in 1857. This was prior to the general law of 1872, and the incorporation was by a special act. Wyanet reincorpoiated under the general law on May 26, 1891.

Passage source: Past and Present of Bureau County, Illinois, published 1906.

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 Wyanet Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

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 Wyanet: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Wyanet Pit B. BaughnSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wyanet Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bureau County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wyanet in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWyanet$25,000Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph blew a semi truck over on Interstate 80 about 6 miles west of Princeton, IL at 436 pm July 10.
September 2005HailWyanet$2,000Reported by state police on Interstate 80 at mile marker 49.
April 2023HailWyanet-A photo from the general public showed ping pong ball sized hail.
August 2021Tornado (EFU)Wyanet-NWS Storm Survey and drone footage confirmed a tornado damage path in corn and soybeans.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWyanet-A public report, via social media, with pictures of two destroyed empty grain bins and a toppled elevator at this location. The time of the event was estimated using radar.
May 2012Funnel CloudWyanet-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud extended halfway to the ground. The spotter also reported that no debris was visible.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWyanet-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 to 65 mph were observed about 1 mile south of Wyanet, IL at 445 pm CDT July 23.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWyanet-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed in Wyanet, IL at 2:37 pm June 15. Rainfall rates of two inches an hour and standing water were also noted.
June 2004Funnel CloudWyanet-Also reported by public
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWyanet-Several trees downed in town.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindWyanet-Numerous trees and limbs were blown down.
April 2023HailWyanet-no account filed
May 2012HailWyanet-no account filed
April 2011HailWyanet-no account filed
April 2003HailWyanet-no account filed
April 1999HailWyanet-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWyanet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bureau 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
Bourbonais (historical)3.1 miles10
Langley5.5 miles10
Buda5.7 miles10
Providence6.0 miles10
Princeton6.3 miles13
Tiskilwa6.5 miles10
Burnett7.4 miles10
Manlius7.7 miles10

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 WyanetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926481The 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 421537. 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.

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.