206.67 acres of farm and timber land near Gibson City, Ford County
This 206.67-acre farm and timber parcel has mapped wetlands on 3% of it, has 3,365 ft of road frontage on N 100E Rd and sits outside FEMA's high-risk flood zone.
100E Rd, Gibson City, IL · Parcel 090831400001
County file October 2026
At a glance
- BuildZoning not on file
- Ground3% wetlands · soils very limited for septic
- AccessFronts a public road
- ValueAssessed value $143k · no recorded sale in the county file (as of Sep 2026)
- Acres206.67
- Land typeFarm and timber
- ZoningWe have not collected a zoning map for Ford County or Drummer Township yet
- Flood zoneX · minimal flood hazard
- Wetlands3% of the parcelNational Wetlands Inventory
- Assessed value (county)$143kA share of value set by law, not a market price · county file October 2026
- Last saleNo recorded sale in the county file (as of Sep 2026)Illinois PTAX-203 transfer declarations
- Road accessHas road accessRoads: US Census TIGER/Line 2026 roads, as of 2026-10-06
- Road frontage3,365 ft on N 100E RdRoad map name; the county roll's address reads Rd
Land facts
From public records and official maps, each with its source and date.
- Who zones itFord County or Drummer TownshipUnincorporated land: the township's zoning where it has adopted its own, else the county's where the county zones township land; some township land has no zoning · outside the City of Gibson City limits · Census city limits, Jan 2025
- Section, township, rangeSection 31, Township 24 North, Range 7 East, Third Principal MeridianBLM PLSS (CadNSDI), at the parcel's center · Oct 2026
- Septic (soils)Very limitedUSDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), septic absorption fields · Oct 2026
- Nearest public wastewater plantAbout 5 miles (straight line) · City of Gibson City WPCFEPA ECHO discharge permits for publicly owned treatment works, Oct 2026 · Not a sewer line at this lot. Plants that do not discharge to a river or stream (spray fields, percolation ponds) are not on EPA's list, so one could be closer
- Ground elevationAbout 785–828 ft above sea level; average slope 2.9%USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second DEM, NAVD88; about ±1–2 ft · Sep 2026
- HighwaysCo Rd 1300 N is 1.5 mi away and I-57 interchange is 17.6 mi away, in a straight lineUS Census TIGER/Line 2026 roads · Oct 2026
- Nearest fire stationAbout 4.6 miles (straight line) · Gibson City Fire Protection DistrictUSGS National Structures Dataset, fire and EMS stations, Oct 2026 · straight line, not road miles. Insurers' fire protection class (ISO) counts road miles to a responding station, often 5 or fewer. A station missing from the federal list would be closer
- Nearest emergency roomAbout 4.1 miles (straight line) · Gibson Area Hospital and Health ServicesCMS Care Compare hospital list (hospitals that report an emergency department), located by the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, Jul 2026 · straight line, not road miles or drive time. Names as filed with Medicare. Veterans', military, children's and psychiatric hospitals are not counted
Services and surroundings
What serves the area around this parcel, from federal and state maps. Area facts, not a survey of the lot.
- USDA home loan areaInside an eligible areaHousehold income limits also apply. USDA Rural Development map, edited Jul 2023.
- Well depth nearbyMedian 108 ft (middle half 92–150 ft)From 24 household well logs within 2 mi, drilled 1941–2008. Area figures, not this parcel. Illinois State Geological Survey wells database.
- Public land nearbySaybrook State Habitat Area, 3 miState natural resources department land, open to the public. 649 acres. Being nearby does not give access or hunting rights. USGS protected areas map (PAD-US 4.1).
School district and farmland
Public federal records, each with its source and date.
- School districtGibson City-Melvin-Sibley Community Unit School District 5Grades pre-K–12 · NCES EDGE school district boundaries, school year 2024–25 (Census TIGER 2025 lines), released Mar 2026. A district, not an assigned school
- Farmland classPrime farmland if drainedMap unit Drummer silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, about 56% of the parcel · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), survey area IL053, version Aug 2026
- Crop productivity (NCCPI)0.83 of 1National Commodity Crop Productivity Index 3.0 of the main soil, Drummer; higher is more productive for non-irrigated commodity crops · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), version Aug 2026
- Land capability classClass 2w of 8: moderate limits for crops (excess water)Non-irrigated, Drummer; class 1 has the fewest limits · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), version Aug 2026
- Cropland rent$294 an acre a yearCounty average, non-irrigated, 2026 · USDA NASS county cash rents survey, released August 21, 2026
District details at NCES: Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Community Unit School District 5
Crops and forest
Public federal records, each with its source and year. Satellite classifications, not farm records.
- Crop history (CDL)2025 soybeans · 2024 corn · 2023 soybeans · 2022 corn · 2021 soybeansthe most common class in the 90 m around the parcel's map point, from satellite imagery; a classification, not a farm record · USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer 2021–2025
- Hydric soils58% of the parcelShare of the outline on soils rated hydric: the soil test of a wetland determination and of an NRCS wetland reserve easement (ACEP-WRE) · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO)
- CRP rental rate (county)$281 an acre a yearThe county's 2026 average dryland soil rental rate (was $296): the base of a new Conservation Reserve contract's yearly rent; each field's rate follows its soils · USDA FSA, CRP 2026 county average soil rental rates
Soil for septic and building
Soils here are rated very limited for a septic drain field. They rate very limited for a house with or without a basement. The main soil shrinks and swells moderately as it wets and dries, which foundations should allow for.
- Septic drain fieldVery limitedLimits: ponding, depth to saturated zone, slow water movement
- House, no basementVery limitedLimits: ponding, depth to saturated zone, shrink-swell
- House with basementVery limitedLimits: ponding, depth to saturated zone, shrink-swell
- Shrink-swellModerateLinear extensibility about 4.3% at 10 to 39 in. deep
A soil-survey screening of the parcel's main soil, not a perc test. A septic permit needs the local health department's site evaluation, and a foundation design needs a soil test on the lot.
Utility service areas
Public service-area maps, each with its source and date. An area, not a connection at this parcel.
- Electric service areaInside the service area of Eastern Illinois Electric Co-op or Ameren Illinois Company (approximate)The mapped areas overlap here · HIFLD electric retail service territories, frozen 2025 copy, edited Aug 2025; approximate, confirm with the utility.
Environmental records
Public state and federal lists, each with its agency and date. A record is not a finding about this parcel.
- Red flags8 environmental lists checked · landfills and dry cleaners not checkedGroundwork check of public lists: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA), Bureau of Land, as of Oct 25, 2026; U.S. EPA, as of Oct 2026; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as of Aug 31, 2026; USGS Gap Analysis Project, as of 2025
Mapped ground hazards
Mapped features from ISGS maps, each with its agency and date. Distances are from the parcel's map point; a mapped area is not a finding about this parcel. Not checked here: karst and sinkholes, oil and gas wells, non-coal mines, landslides.
- Underground coal mineNone mapped within 1/4 miISGS: Abandoned and Active Coal Mines in Illinois (underground), as of Jan 2012. ISGS outlines from company mine maps; approximate outer boundaries, not a legal or engineering base; the source rates these outlines for regional use only, at 1:100,000 scale or smaller
- Surface coal mineNot in a mapped surface coal mineISGS: Abandoned and Active Coal Mines in Illinois (surface and auger), as of Jun 2011. ISGS outlines; approximate, not a legal or engineering base; the source rates these outlines for regional use only, at 1:100,000 scale or smaller
Free account: 25 parcel cards a day on the map, with watches and a saved search
Illinois 2026 taxes are billed in 2027: the first installment is due no earlier than June 1, 2027.
Sources: Illinois Property Tax Code 35 ILCS 200/21-15, 35 ILCS 200/21-25, 35 ILCS 200/21-30 and 35 ILCS 200/16-55. Checked Oct 13, 2026.
Value history
County layer, Aug 2026: $142,590 ($142,590 land)
Roll values set for property tax · Ford County parcel layer · as of Aug 2026
What land sells for nearby
Land in Ford County sold for:
- 10 acres or more: $9.5k–$13.7k an acre (13 sales, Oct 2025–Sep 2026); median $11.9k
The middle half (25th to 75th percentile) and the median of arm's-length single-parcel land sales. Each size uses its own months (the shortest of 12, 24 or 36 that holds enough sales), so the sizes' counts need not add up to another figure on this page. Source: Illinois Department of Revenue PTAX-203 declarations, land or farm at the sale, screen S1. Recorded sales, not an estimate of any parcel.
Home values in ZIP 60936 rose about 54% over 5 years and 19% in the last year (FHFA, 2025).
Assessed value
- How Illinois assessesIllinois assesses property at one third of its fair cash value (35 ILCS 200/9-145); Cook County classifies, assessing homes at 10% and commercial property at 25%. Farmland is valued on its soil productivity (35 ILCS 200/10-110 to 10-125). An assessed value is not what the property would sell for.35 ILCS 200 (Property Tax Code)
Tax area
- TownshipDrummer Township - Code: 09Ford County parcel layer
- Tax code09001 (the county's tax-rate area)Ford County parcel layer
Buildings and use
- UseFrom the county's property class (0021)
Owner: on the county assessment roll (not shown here). Request removal
Data: Ford County
Hazards
FEMA National Risk Index for this census tract, not this parcel. As of Dec 2025.
- Strong wind
- Relatively high
- Cold wave
- Relatively high
- Tornado
- Relatively moderate
- Hail
- Relatively moderate
- Riverine flooding
- Relatively moderate
- Winter weather
- Relatively moderate
- Drought
- Relatively moderate
- Heat wave
- Relatively low
- Lightning
- Relatively low
- Earthquake
- Relatively low
Recorded flood claims
OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, as of Sep 2026
- Claims since 1978
- Fewer than 10Insured buildings in this census tract
Federal disaster declarations
Federal disaster declarations in Ford County since 2000: 6 (most recently COVID-19 Pandemic, January 2020).
- 2 biological emergencies (COVID-19)
- 2 snowstorms
- 1 hurricane
- 1 tornado
Development nearby
Little new development: under 5 acres within a mile turned from farmland, forest or other open land into developed land in 2020–2025.
- 2020–2025
- Under 5 acresWithin a mile, open land turned developed
- 2015–2025
- Under 5 acresThe same, over 10 years
- Typical in Ford County
- Under 5 acresThe middle of the county's land, 2020–2025
Neighborhood (Census)
Census ACS 2020–2024 5-year, as of Jan 2026
- Median household income
- $87,500± $26,610
- Median home value (owner-reported)
- $150,200± $14,997
- Median rent (gross)
- $888± $239 · census tract (block group sample too small)
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 79%± 9 pts
- Median year homes were built
- 1962± 16 yr
- Average commute (one way)
- 31 min± 13 min · census tract (not published for block groups)
- Population
- 1,062± 207
Figures for the census block group around this parcel (a few hundred homes), not this property. This product uses Census Bureau data but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
Nearby parcels
Land and farm parcels of 1 acre or more in Ford County, nearest first.
- 80 E 550N Rd160 acres · Farm and timber · 0.6 mi
- 200E Rd193 acres · Farm and timber · 0.8 mi
- 200E& 600N Rds158 acres · Farm and timber · 0.8 mi
- 469 N 100E Rd160 acres · Farm and timber · 1.5 mi
- 100E & 700N Rds240 acres · Farm and timber · 1.6 mi
- 200E Rd208 acres · Farm and timber · 1.9 mi
- 100E Rd192 acres · Farm and timber · 2.1 mi
- 770 N 200E Rd160 acres · Farm and timber · 2.1 mi
Land and farm parcels of 1 acre or more in Ford County: 472 parcel pages
Sources & methodSources, county file October 2026
At a glance: each fact's source and date
Each figure in the grid above, where it comes from and the date of the file or map we read.
Acres: Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, county file Oct 13, 2026.
Land type: Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, county file Oct 13, 2026.
Zoning: Our zoning map coverage, map built Oct 14, 2026.
Flood zone: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, as of Oct 11, 2026.
Wetlands: USFWS National Wetlands Inventory, as of Oct 1, 2026.
Assessed value (county): Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, county file Oct 13, 2026.
Last sale: Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, sales through Oct 9, 2026.
Road access: Roads: US Census TIGER/Line 2026 roads, as of 2026-10-06.
Road frontage: road centerlines, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Soil for septic and building
Source: USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), survey area IL053, version Aug 2026, read through NRCS Soil Data Access.
The parcel's main soil map unit covers about 56% of its outline: Drummer silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes. Its main component is Drummer (94% of the unit).
The ratings are NRCS's own map-unit interpretations (dominant condition): ENG - Septic Tank Absorption Fields, ENG - Dwellings W/O Basements and ENG - Dwellings With Basements. The limits listed are the features NRCS names for the main component. Shrink-swell is that component's linear extensibility, depth-weighted from 25 to 100 cm, the layer NRCS's homesite rule reads; NRCS classes: low under 3%, moderate 3 to 6%, high 6 to 9%, very high 9% or more.
A screening, not a perc test or a soil boring: soils vary inside a map unit (survey scale about 1:12,000 to 1:24,000), and fill or grading may have changed the lot.
What land sells for nearby
This tracks home values, not land values. Land buyers read it as a sign of demand nearby: where homes gain value, builders and buyers follow. A vacant lot can move differently.
How: the change in FHFA's annual five-digit ZIP code index from 2020 and 2024 to 2025, rounded. The index follows repeat sales and refinance appraisals of the same single-family homes with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac mortgages. It is in today's dollars, not adjusted for inflation, and FHFA calls these local indexes developmental. Where FHFA's sample is too small it publishes no figure, and none prints here.
Source: FHFA House Price Index, all-transactions, annual five-digit ZIP code index, 2025, last updated March 31, 2026. Method: Bogin, Doerner and Larson, “Local House Price Dynamics: New Indices and Stylized Facts”, FHFA Working Paper 16-01.
Hazards
Ratings come from FEMA's National Risk Index (v1.20, planning-level) and the public federal and state maps named on each row, not a private climate model. FEMA rates each census tract from expected annual losses, community resilience and social vulnerability, for planning; it is not an assessment of this parcel.
Recorded flood claims
Insured buildings near this parcel, not the parcel itself. FEMA counts claims on buildings with NFIP flood insurance, so land that never had an insured building has no claims to count. The count is the parcel's census block group when it has 10 or more, else its tract's; a count under 10 prints as "Fewer than 10". Source: OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3.
Federal disaster declarations
Each federal declaration whose designated areas include the county, declared from January 2000 on, counted once by its FEMA disaster number. An emergency declaration and a major-disaster declaration for the same storm are two declarations, as FEMA numbers them. Declarations for tribal lands alone are not counted. The date shown is when the most recent incident began. Types are FEMA's incident types: an evacuation emergency for a storm elsewhere (Hurricane Katrina, 2005) counts under that storm. By kind: 3 major disasters and 3 emergencies.
Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset: Disaster Declarations Summaries - v2, as of October 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data.
Development nearby
Counted from USGS Annual NLCD land cover (USGS Annual NLCD Collection 1.2, 30 m maps made from Landsat imagery, 2015, 2020 and 2025; public domain, DOI 10.5066/P94UXNTS). A 30 m square counts when it was forest, shrub, grassland, pasture, cropland or wetland in the start year and developed in 2025: NLCD's developed classes, from lawns, parks and roads to dense buildings. The squares are summed over the land within about a mile of this parcel's center on a 240 m grid, so the figures are rounded. "Most of the county" compares the same one-mile figure across the county's land. A satellite land-cover map misses some changes and mislabels a few, so read it as a guide to how fast the area is building out, not a survey. As of 2025 land cover.
Neighborhood (Census)
± is the Census 90% margin of error; a figure comes from the larger census tract when the block group's sample is too small.
Assessed value
Assessed value (one third of fair cash value by law; Cook County 10% for homes, 25% for commercial), not a market price. County file, October 2026.
Assessed value, not a market value: one third of fair cash value by statute.
Estimate
Rough estimate. Not tested to our price-range standard. Half of past estimates were within ±20% (measured across Illinois); the range covers about 8 in 10. Land only; any building is not included.
Parcel outline
The outline and its edge lengths are measured on the parcel map the map draws; the aerial loads from the public imagery named under it.
Source
Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, county file Oct 13, 2026.
Record
Public records can be wrong; check before you act.
Parcel: 090831400001
Coordinates: 40.4908° N, 88.4470° W