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.
Population over time
2 figuresMulkeytown 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 175 | |
| 2020 | 162 | -13 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 18 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.
- 1910 USGS Herrin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1936 USGS Herrin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Christopher quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
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 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MINES |
| 25 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MARHET |
| 16 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | SOHM |
| 22 January 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MASON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2017 | Tornado (EF3) | Mulkeytown | $800,000 | This 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulkeytown | $70,000 | The roof was blown off a house in Mulkeytown. In Valier, a large tree crashed through the roof of a house. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulkeytown | $40,000 | Trees 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 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Mulkeytown | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Mulkeytown | $6,000 | The 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 2024 | Hail | Mulkeytown | - | 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 2024 | Flood | Mulkeytown | - | Floodwaters rose up on the Little Muddy River on the western edge of Franklin County and lingered through the night. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Mulkeytown | - | 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 2013 | Tornado (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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulkeytown | - | Wind gusts were estimated up to 80 mph by emergency management officials. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Mulkeytown | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Mulkeytown | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Mulkeytown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coello | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Christopher | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Urbain | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Cleburne | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Valier | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Mitchell | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Buckner | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Valier Patch | 5.5 miles | 11 |
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 Mulkeytown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6934039 | 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 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.










