Buckhorn, Illinois

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62353. The Survey maps it on the Mount Sterling quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Buckhorn within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1926 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1929 USGS Mt. Sterling quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

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 Buckhorn: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
	Mt. Sterling Plant No. 13 & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant
	Mt.Sterling Clay Pit & Mill	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckhorn in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Buckhorn	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees onto Route 107 about 5 miles south of Mount Sterling. In Versailles, several large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2000	Hail	Buckhorn	-	1 1/2 inch hail was reported at Siloam Spring State Park.
May 2021	Hail	Buckhorn	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Buckhorn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fargo	2.7 miles	12
White Oak Springs (historical)	3.8 miles	12
Hersman	5.1 miles	12
Mount Sterling	5.2 miles	12
Benville	5.2 miles	11
Timewell	5.3 miles	14
Siloam	5.4 miles	11
Jaques	6.1 miles	12

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 Buckhorn	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4983147	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 422510. 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.