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Dunfermline, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Buckheart Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61520. The Survey maps it on the Saint David quadrangle. 262 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 636 feet above sea level.

Dunfermline within Fulton County

Population over time

2 figures

Dunfermline fell from 300 to 262 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
2010300
2020262-38 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

In the county-history sources

13,789 words on this township

History of Fulton County, Illinois;, published 1879 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Buckheart Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Buckheart Township - 13,789 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dunfermline: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Canton City PitStonePast Producer
Fulton City PitStonePast Producer
Joshua Township PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunfermline in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 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
May 2006Thunderstorm WindDunfermline-Six 1 to 3 foot diameter trees were snapped off.
August 2022HailDunfermline-no account filed
July 2008HailDunfermline-no account filed
May 2006HailDunfermline-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Saint David0.9 miles19
Bryant3.6 miles19
Maples Mill4.3 miles19
Civer (historical)4.6 miles17
Canton4.6 miles17
East Lawndale5.0 miles17
Fulton Center (historical)5.0 miles17
Rawalts5.1 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 DunfermlineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2199409The 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 407496. 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.

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.