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.
Population over time
2 figuresBuckner 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 462 | |
| 2020 | 409 | -53 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1910 USGS Herrin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1936 USGS Herrin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Christopher quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
11 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | not named |
| 25 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MARHET |
| 19 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BENDER |
| 18 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | STEFFINS |
| 16 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SOHM |
| 15 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DAVIDSON |
| 9 February 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchner Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckner | $50,000 | Trees were blown down countywide, including in West Frankfort, Buckner, and Benton. Trees were down on a van and a camper in Thompsonville. |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckner | $3,000 | Large tree limbs were blown down in Ewing, the northeast part of Benton, and Buckner. |
| August 2016 | Flood | Buckner | - | Minor flooding occurred on the Big Muddy River. Low-lying woods and fields near the river were inundated. |
| January 2013 | Flash Flood | Buckner | - | Andy's Creek was over a section of roadway on Illinois Route 14. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Buckner | - | Dime-size hail occurred in Buckner, Ewing, and the northeast part of Benton. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buckner | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hickory Corners | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| Urbain | 1.4 miles | 18 | |
| Christopher | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Valier | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Coello | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Valier Patch | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Rend City | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Cleburne | 3.8 miles | 18 |
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 Buckner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1994717 | 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 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.










