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Mitchellsville, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Independence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62917. It stands on Old Channel. The Survey maps it on the Harrisburg quadrangle. It stands 377 feet above sea level.

Mitchellsville within Saline County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Mitchellsville between 1994 and 2017, burning about 131 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2

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 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresShawnee National ForestOAK ROAD
29 June 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreShawnee National ForestTOM DICK HILL 1
15 June 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresShawnee National ForestBEECH HOLLOW
7 March 2009Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresShawnee National ForestPEAK
7 March 2004Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresShawnee National ForestBLACKMAN HILL
6 March 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresShawnee National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mitchellsville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Harrisburg Grick and Tile Co. ClayClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mitchellsville in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindMitchellsville$75,000An Eagle Coal metal structure collapsed as a result of rear flank downdraft winds just south of a tornado track.
May 2025Tornado (EF1)Mitchellsville$10,000An EF-1 tornado damaged trees in a 6.78 mile long path across southeast Saline County, Illinois. No structural damage was reported. Estimated peak winds were 88 mph. This was the second tornado to form from the supercell that produced an EF-4 in Williamson County, IL.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMitchellsville$8,000Trees were blown down, causing power outages.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindMitchellsville$3,000Multiple trees snapped at the ground as a thunderstorm line moved through the area.
July 2025Flash FloodMitchellsville-Approximately 8-10 of moving water was flowing across IL-145 south of Harrisburg. Radar estimated rainfall reached 1-2 in the area.
June 2011HailMitchellsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Saline 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
Saline Valley Store (historical)2.6 miles22
Rudement2.7 miles22
Pankeyville4.0 miles20
Somerset4.3 miles22
Ledford4.4 miles20
Whitesville (historical)4.4 miles22
Dorrisville4.7 miles20
Garden Heights4.8 miles20

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 MitchellsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6881488The 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 413689. 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.