Lewistown, Illinois

Lewistown population, 2020 to 2024

Lewistown lost 82 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.0%. In the latest year it moved by -13.

Lewistown covers 2.00 square miles of land, for 980 people per square mile of land. The median Illinois place of 5,000+ has 2,177, so Lewistown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lewistown is in

All of Lewistown's residents live in Fulton County, which had 32,510 residents in 2024. Lewistown holds 6.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lewistown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lewistown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 61542. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Lewistown is

The Census internal point of Lewistown is at 40.396900, -90.155500. Springfield, the capital, is 50.2 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Havana, IL (2,826 people), 8.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Peoria, IL, 37.4 miles away.

Daylight in Lewistown

At 40.40° N, Lewistown gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lewistown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Illinois, measured between internal points. The closest is Cuba, 7.0 miles away, with 1,137 people.