BlockBuckley, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Artesia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60918. The Survey maps it on the Buckley quadrangle. 495 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 702 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBuckley fell from 600 to 495 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 | 600 | |
| 2020 | 495 | -105 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1948 USGS Buckley quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Buckley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Fairbury quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Buckley quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckley in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | $50,000 | A state trooper reported that 60 mph winds overturned two construction trailers along Interstate 57 between Buckley and Loda. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | - | A tree was downed onto a truck in Buckley. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | - | Photos shared on social media showed numerous small tree limbs, at least a couple inches in diameter, blown down in multiple locations across Buckley. |
| July 2022 | Flood | Buckley | - | A photo shared on social media showed minor street flooding near First Street and Main Street. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | - | Ten utility poles were snapped at their base along 700N Road, west of Interstate 57. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | - | A large healthy tree was snapped at the trunk. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | - | A tree was blown down in Buckley. Power outages were reported. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Buckley | - | Half dollar size hail was reported on Route 45 south of Buckley. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Buckley | - | US Route 45 was closed between Onarga and Buckley due to high water. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | - | Tree limbs were blown down northwest of Buckley near I-57. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | - | One large tree was blown down at Buckley Lake and a tree fell on to a truck in Cissna Park. Tree limbs were also blown down across southwest Iroquois County. |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | - | Power poles were downed by winds at Buckley and a garage was destroyed at Wellington. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Buckley | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delrey | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Loda | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Thawville | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Cissna Park | 8.0 miles | 12 | |
| Ridgeville | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Onarga | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Idaville Corner | 8.4 miles | 12 | |
| Pitchin | 9.1 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 Buckley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671603 | 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 405136. 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.