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Bush, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Blairsville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62924. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the De Soto quadrangle. 241 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Bush within Williamson County

Population over time

2 figures

Bush fell from 275 to 241 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
2010275
2020241-34 (-12%)

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

20 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Bush between 2010 and 2013, burning about 103 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning2

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMINES
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10163
5 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10077
2 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13058
15 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10093
7 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10053
28 February 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWRIGHT
8 December 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10341

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bush in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBush$1,000A downed tree covered both lanes on Highway 149 north of Hurst.
March 2025HailBush-Ping pong ball size hail fell near Bush.
March 2012HailBush-no account filed
April 2005HailBush-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Hurst0.9 miles18
Blairsville2.3 miles18
Clifford3.2 miles18
Colp3.8 miles18
Cambria4.3 miles18
Sunnyside4.9 miles18
Fredonia5.0 miles18
Dewmaine5.2 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 BushAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2469309The 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 405282. 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.

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.