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Chebanse, Illinois

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Otto Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60922. The Survey maps it on the West Kankakee quadrangle. 1,044 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Chebanse within Kankakee County

Population over time

2 figures

Chebanse fell from 1,062 to 1,044 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
20101,062
20201,044-18 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Chebanse between 2010 and 2012, burning about 9 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
11 March 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesOHRT
10 March 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTRUDEU
20 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources102319

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kankakee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chebanse in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2026: 2 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindChebanse-Two utility poles were blown down.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindChebanse-Two semi trucks were blown over on Interstate 57 near mile marker 302.

Every storm recorded in Kankakee 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
Otto3.2 miles15
Sammons Point3.4 miles14
Sugar Island4.5 miles14
Irwin5.3 miles15
Aroma Park7.4 miles14
Dickeys7.6 miles12
Greenwich8.0 miles15
Hillside Manor8.0 miles15

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 ChebanseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2188558The 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 406002. 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.