Buckingham, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Norton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60917. The Survey maps it on the Buckingham quadrangle. 244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBuckingham fell from 300 to 244 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 | 300 | |
| 2020 | 244 | -56 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1923 USGS Herscher quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1925 USGS Herscher quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Buckingham quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Buckingham in 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2018-0000013 |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Buckingham: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hershey Sulfur Plant | Sulfur | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckingham in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckingham | $15,000 | Route 115 was closed between 17000W and 16000W roads due to several power snapped power poles. Two power lines were blown down on 5000S Road between 16000W and 15000W roads. Several south facing windows were blown in on a house. A roof was blown off a shed. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Buckingham | - | A few hail reports from north and northwest of Buckingham ranged in size from 2.5 to 3.5 inches in diameter. |
| July 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Buckingham | - | The tornado started approximately three quarters of a mile east-northeast of Cabery. As it crossed S 17000W Rd, there were several large metal corrugated pipes probably 10 feet in diameter rolled long distances. The tornado headed east to S 16000W Rd, and a farm outbuilding lost its roof and part of the walls collapsed. Two grain bins were destroyed. Many power lines down 7-8 mile south of Rt. 17. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Buckingham | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckingham | - | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Hail | Buckingham | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herscher | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Union Hill | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Pilot Center (historical) | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Dickeys | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| Goodrich | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Clarke City | 8.5 miles | 13 | |
| Frielings | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Essex | 9.0 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 Buckingham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671716 | 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 405129. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.






