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Pankeyville, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Harrisburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62946. The Survey maps it on the Harrisburg quadrangle. It stands 371 feet above sea level.

Pankeyville 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

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pankeyville in 2009, burning about 40 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources1614
5 March 2009Debris and open burning35 acresShawnee National ForestRICE RD,

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Saline County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pankeyville: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Cave In Rock QuarryStonePast Producer
Downstate No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Harrisburg City Eng.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Saline Highway DepartmentStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Saline County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pankeyville in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2017FloodPankeyville1 killed, $30,000The middle fork of the Saline River remained flooded for much of the month. An elderly man drowned after driving around barricades to a bridge over the river. The man's truck was washed off the road in the area of the bridge. The incident occurred on a county road southeast of Harrisburg.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindPankeyville$75,000Delayed report. An anchored single-wide trailer was overturned and partially collapsed by thunderstorm downburst winds on Brier Creek Road. Nearby mature corn rows were also blown down. Thunderstorm winds are estimated to be around 80 to 90 mph.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindPankeyville$10,000Part of a barn roof was ripped off, a tree and light pole were blown down, and some light objects including a trampoline were blown around. Power lines were down on Highway 145.
December 2013Flash FloodPankeyville-Water was up to the door sills of a pickup truck on the east side of Harrisburg.
January 2013Flash FloodPankeyville-State Route 145 was flooded south of Harrisburg. Police detoured traffic.

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
Dorrisville0.8 miles20
Garden Heights1.0 miles20
Gaskins City1.6 miles20
Liberty2.0 miles20
Harrisburg2.1 miles20
Ledford2.9 miles20
Buena Vista3.0 miles20
Dorris Heights3.0 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 PankeyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7131311The 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 415344. 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.