BlockDunkel, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Assumption Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62557. The Survey maps it on the Pana quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1947 USGS Pana quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Pana quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Pana quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Pana quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Assumption township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Robert A. Hazlett
Ha/.lett, grandtather of Mr. Hazlett, came from Irelaud and settled in North Carolina before the Revolutionary war. Chandler Hazlett, his grandfather's brother, was a soldier in the Revolution. He was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, and there is still pres'erved in the family a book which he picked up as he crawled off that hotly contested field.
In the county-history sources
35,922 words on this townshipHistory of Christian County, Illinois, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Assumption Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Assumption Township - 35,922 words.
Fires near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Dunkel between 2008 and 2015, burning about 8 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 burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2015 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 4CORNAC |
| 29 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | KRESIN |
| 6 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | UNION |
| 8 December 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | DICKEY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunkel in 3 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Dunkel | $25,000 | A tornado touched down in a field 2.6 miles southwest of Assumption at 2:11 PM CDT. The tornado tracked southeastward and quickly dissipated by about 2:12 PM CDT on the edge of a property. Several trees were damaged near the property line, a hole was punched into a roof by a falling tree limb, and the siding was partially ripped off one building. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkel | - | The siding was damaged on a home, and a gutter was ripped from a garage. |
| October 2021 | Hail | Dunkel | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assumption | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Millersville | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Richwood Manor | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Pana | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Park Manor | 5.7 miles | 11 | |
| Owaneco | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Radford | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Rosamond | 8.0 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422641. 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.