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Mulkeytown, Illinois

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Tyrone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62865. The Survey maps it on the Christopher quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 446 feet above sea level.

Mulkeytown within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Mulkeytown fell from 175 to 162 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
2010175
2020162-13 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Mulkeytown between 2009 and 2011, burning about 72 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMINES
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMARHET
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSOHM
22 January 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMASON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mulkeytown in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 tornado, 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
February 2017Tornado (EF3)Mulkeytown$800,000This large tornado entered Franklin County from Jackson County. The tornado originally formed near Perryville, Missouri. The most intense damage in Franklin County was located south of Mulkeytown, where the tornado was rated EF-3 based on a house that was swept clean off its foundation. Debris was thrown up to a mile downwind. The debris was shredded, with nothing larger than 2-by-4 wood pieces. However, the house was sitting on a block foundation, unattached to anything. Based on the lack of any anchors for the house, peak winds were estimated near 160 mph at this site. Most of the other damage in this rural area of Franklin County consisted of snapped trees, heavily damaged barns, and a few damaged houses. The tornado rapidly weakened from EF-3 intensity to complete dissipation during the final two miles of its path. The average path width in Franklin County was 340 yards. The total path length starting near Perryville, Missouri was nearly 50 miles. The tornado dissipated just southwest of Christopher.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMulkeytown$70,000The roof was blown off a house in Mulkeytown. In Valier, a large tree crashed through the roof of a house.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMulkeytown$40,000Trees were blown down in Mulkeytown. In Benton, a large tree fell on an apartment building. Moderate damage occurred to the roof and upper parts of a wall. A very large tree was blown down in Christopher.
April 1996Tornado (F1)Mulkeytown$20,000no account filed
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Mulkeytown$6,000The tornado continued into Franklin County from Perry County. Many trees were blown down. The tornado was embedded within a much broader area of straight-line wind damage to trees. Peak winds were estimated near 85 mph in this portion of the track.
May 2024HailMulkeytown-Golf ball size hail was reported on Yellow Banks Rd south of Christopher. Hail estimated to quarter size was reported via mPING in Buckner. Dime size hail was also reported by emergency management just south of Mulkeytown. Both of the latter locations were on the north side of a hail core from a very strong storm moving northeastward across Franklin County.
July 2024FloodMulkeytown-Floodwaters rose up on the Little Muddy River on the western edge of Franklin County and lingered through the night.
June 2015Heavy RainMulkeytown-At Mulkeytown, the storm-total rainfall was 3.09 inches. Most of this rain fell in a three-hour window during the early morning hours. Water was over Highway 14 in several spots west of Benton.
January 2013Tornado (EF0)Mulkeytown-Two spotters eyewitnessed a brief tornado touchdown along Highway 14 near Old Du Quoin, about 1/4 mile east of the Franklin/Perry county line. Winds were estimated at 85 mph. No damage was reported with the tornado, partly because this stretch of road was devoid of trees and power lines.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMulkeytown-Wind gusts were estimated up to 80 mph by emergency management officials.
April 2006HailMulkeytown-no account filed
May 2004HailMulkeytown-no account filed
April 2003HailMulkeytown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Coello2.8 miles18
Christopher3.1 miles18
Urbain3.8 miles18
Cleburne3.9 miles18
Valier4.8 miles11
Mitchell5.0 miles18
Buckner5.1 miles18
Valier Patch5.5 miles11

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 MulkeytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6934039The 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 414225. 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.