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.
Population over time
2 figuresWyanet 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 991 | |
| 2020 | 886 | -105 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Buda quadrangle1:62500
- 1923 USGS Buda quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Wyanet quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Kewanee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
385 words on this townshipPast 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 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyanet Pit B. Baughn | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Wyanet Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wyanet | $25,000 | Wind 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 2005 | Hail | Wyanet | $2,000 | Reported by state police on Interstate 80 at mile marker 49. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Wyanet | - | A photo from the general public showed ping pong ball sized hail. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Wyanet | - | NWS Storm Survey and drone footage confirmed a tornado damage path in corn and soybeans. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wyanet | - | 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 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Wyanet | - | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud extended halfway to the ground. The spotter also reported that no debris was visible. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wyanet | - | 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 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wyanet | - | 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 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Wyanet | - | Also reported by public |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wyanet | - | Several trees downed in town. |
| March 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wyanet | - | Numerous trees and limbs were blown down. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Wyanet | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Wyanet | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Wyanet | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Wyanet | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Wyanet | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wyanet | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bourbonais (historical) | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Langley | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Buda | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Providence | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Princeton | 6.3 miles | 13 | |
| Tiskilwa | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Burnett | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Manlius | 7.7 miles | 10 |
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 Wyanet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1926481 | The 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.





