BlockYale, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Grandville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62481. The Survey maps it on the Yale quadrangle. 67 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 558 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresYale fell from 86 to 67 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 | 86 | |
| 2020 | 67 | -19 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1940 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Greenup quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Yale quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Effingham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Yale quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
12 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yale in 12 storm reports between 2005 and 2026: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | $15,000 | Several trees were blown down in Yale. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | $15,000 | The roof was blown off the firehouse in Yale. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | $15,000 | Numerous power lines and poles were blown down. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | $1,000 | A tree was blown down in Yale. |
| February 2026 | Tornado (EF0) | Yale | - | A short-lived tornado developed in a field three miles southwest of Yale. It moved northeast and dissipated shortly after crossing N 1675 St. The tornado resulted in tall field grass being blown over and matted down. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Yale | - | Heavy rainfall amounts of 3.00 to 5.00 inches during the evening hours of July 29th produced flash flooding in extreme northeast Jasper County. Many rural roads east and northeast of Yale were impassable due to the accumulated water. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yale | - | Tree blown down across county road. |
| February 2026 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| November 2025 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Yale | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Yale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advance | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Point Pleasant | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hunt City | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Brookville | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Plainfield | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Rose Hill | 6.6 miles | 13 | |
| Hidalgo | 6.9 miles | 13 | |
| Falmouth | 7.8 miles | 13 |
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 Yale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2556397 | 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 421548. 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.