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Cooksville, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Blue Mound Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61730. The Survey maps it on the Cooksville quadrangle. 157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 767 feet above sea level.

Cooksville within McLean County

Population over time

2 figures

Cooksville fell from 182 to 157 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
2010182
2020157-25 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Cooksville between 2011 and 2013, burning about 3 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/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2013-156
25 October 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesFREED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cooksville in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCooksville-A tree was blown down across Route 9 near the Cooksville-Ellsworth Blacktop.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCooksville-Personal weather station KILCOOKS5 measured a wind gust of 65 mph.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCooksville-Numerous trees were blown down and a mobile home was blown off its foundation.
July 2011HailCooksville-no account filed
June 2009HailCooksville-no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindCooksville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Fletcher3.7 miles14
Pleasant Hill5.1 miles11
Colfax5.6 miles11
Merna6.1 miles14
Ellsworth6.4 miles12
Bentown6.8 miles14
Padua6.9 miles14
Lexington7.7 miles14

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 CooksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2053740The 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 406510. 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.