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Pittsburg, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Lake Creek precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62974. The Survey maps it on the Pittsburg quadrangle. 565 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Pittsburg within Williamson County

Population over time

2 figures

Pittsburg fell from 572 to 565 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
2010572
2020565-7 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

21 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Pittsburg between 2010 and 2013, burning about 126 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/undetermined20
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
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10206
11 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10171
14 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13107
12 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10087
8 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10055
7 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10052
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10046
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources10049

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williamson 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 Pittsburg: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium. 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
Crab Orchard Pit & Lime PlantStone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumPlant

Every working recorded in Williamson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsburg in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 1 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
April 2018Tornado (EF1)Pittsburg$40,000At least a half dozen homes lost shingles. Windows were blown out of one home. A couple of barns lost parts of their roofs. A fence was blown over. There were dozens of trees with broken limbs or snapped trunks. Peak winds were estimated near 95 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPittsburg$10,000At least ten trees were down in the county, mostly the eastern half.
March 2023FloodPittsburg-Water was over Dwina Road.
September 2015Heavy RainPittsburg-The broadcast media reported 2.73 inches of rainfall from thunderstorms during the night.
April 2009HailPittsburg-no account filed
September 2006HailPittsburg-no account filed
November 2006HailPittsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williamson 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
Halfway2.4 miles17
Paulton2.6 miles17
Spillertown3.8 miles18
Crab Orchard4.1 miles20
White Ash4.1 miles18
Attila4.2 miles17
Shakerag4.4 miles18
Dog Walk4.6 miles18

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 PittsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2426466The 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 415746. 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.