Iuka, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Iuka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62849. The Survey maps it on the Iuka quadrangle. 512 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 518 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresIuka grew from 489 to 512 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 489 | |
| 2020 | 512 | +23 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1934 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500
- 1938 USGS Salem quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Iuka quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Olney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Iuka between 2010 and 2016, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 March 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 16-021 |
| 23 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10168 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Iuka: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shufeldt Property | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iuka in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iuka | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees, numerous tree limbs, and power lines. Also, a couple of houses sustained minor to moderate damage from the fallen trees and tree limbs. |
| March 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Iuka | - | A storm chaser reported a brief tornado in an open field south of Iuka. No damage was reported. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iuka | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped off several large trees and blew down numerous tree limbs. Also, the winds blew off part of a metal roof from a barn and blew in a garage door on a residence. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iuka | - | Numerous large trees were blown over around town. One large tree landed on a garage causing considerable damage. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Iuka | - | Considerable corn and soybean crop damage due to nickel to quarter size hail that covered the entire ground in some areas. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iuka | - | Another area of downburst winds was surveyed from about 1.5 miles west of Iuka through Iuka to about half a mile east of Iuka. A large corn field just west of town was flattened by the high winds. One mobile home was destroyed by a large tree that fell on it. Numerous large trees and tree limbs were blown down around town. Some homes sustained minor damage due to the fallen trees and tree limbs. The width of the damage swath was three quarters of a mile with winds estimated between 70 and 80 mph. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Iuka | - | The County Sheriff reported trees down in the Iuka area. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Iuka | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Iuka | - | 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.
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 Iuka | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2345198 | The 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 410975. 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.
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.





