BlockKeenes, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Four Mile Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62851. The Survey maps it on the Bluford quadrangle. 50 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 453 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKeenes fell from 83 to 50 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 | 83 | |
| 2020 | 50 | -33 (-40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Wayne City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bluford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keenes in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keenes | $75,000 | Roofs were off of buildings, and a farm silo was destroyed. Trees were uprooted, and some tops of trees were blown off. Damage was reported to an outbuilding. |
| March 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Keenes | $70,000 | The tornado began at a place called Middleton in rural southwest Wayne County. A calf was injured after being picked up and thrown against a barn. A few mobile homes were overturned. Swirl marks were still visible in a field four days after the tornado. An old schoolhouse was destroyed, mostly due to a large tree falling on it. Numerous very large trees were uprooted and snapped. Boards were impaled into the ground. One home received extensive roof damage. Two barns were destroyed, and several barns were damaged. Shingles were blown off roofs. There were several eyewitness accounts of the tornado. Peak winds were estimated near 110 MPH. Average path width was 250 yards. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Keenes | $5,000 | Measured wind gusts to 65 mph occurred in the community of Smithville, south of Wayne City. The wind gusts lasted three to four minutes. The nearby community of Sims was without power, and tree limbs were down. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Keenes | - | Penny to quarter size hail was reported from Keenes, through the Wayne City area, to Sims. The largest hail, which was quarter size, occurred in Wayne City. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Keenes | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayne City | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Middleton | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Keenesville | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Smithville | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Sims | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Mayberry | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Crisp | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Cincinnati | 8.2 miles | 9 |
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 Keenes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2672271 | 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 411346. 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.
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.