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Buckner, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Browning Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62819. It lies near Turkey Knob. The Survey maps it on the Christopher quadrangle. 409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 405 feet above sea level.

Buckner within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Buckner fell from 462 to 409 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.

YearPeople Change
2010462
2020409-53 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Buckner between 2001 and 2009, burning about 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 June 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARHET
19 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBENDER
18 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTEFFINS
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSOHM
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDAVIDSON
9 February 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Buckner: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buchner Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckner in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBuckner$50,000Trees were blown down countywide, including in West Frankfort, Buckner, and Benton. Trees were down on a van and a camper in Thompsonville.
September 2009Thunderstorm WindBuckner$3,000Large tree limbs were blown down in Ewing, the northeast part of Benton, and Buckner.
August 2016FloodBuckner-Minor flooding occurred on the Big Muddy River. Low-lying woods and fields near the river were inundated.
January 2013Flash FloodBuckner-Andy's Creek was over a section of roadway on Illinois Route 14.
September 2009HailBuckner-Dime-size hail occurred in Buckner, Ewing, and the northeast part of Benton.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBuckner-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hickory Corners1.1 miles18
Urbain1.4 miles18
Christopher2.1 miles18
Valier2.6 miles11
Coello2.8 miles18
Valier Patch3.2 miles11
Rend City3.5 miles11
Cleburne3.8 miles18

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 BucknerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1994717The 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 405138. 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.