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.
Population over time
2 figuresPittsburg 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 572 | |
| 2020 | 565 | -7 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 17 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.
- 1909 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:62500
- 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
- 1963 USGS Pittsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1963 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:62500
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
21 since 2010Regional 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/undetermined | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10206 |
| 11 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10171 |
| 14 June 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 13107 |
| 12 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10087 |
| 8 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10055 |
| 7 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10052 |
| 6 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10046 |
| 6 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 10049 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crab Orchard Pit & Lime Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium | Plant |
Storms near this place
7 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Pittsburg | $40,000 | At 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsburg | $10,000 | At least ten trees were down in the county, mostly the eastern half. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Pittsburg | - | Water was over Dwina Road. |
| September 2015 | Heavy Rain | Pittsburg | - | The broadcast media reported 2.73 inches of rainfall from thunderstorms during the night. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Pittsburg | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Pittsburg | - | no account filed |
| November 2006 | Hail | Pittsburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halfway | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Paulton | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Spillertown | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Crab Orchard | 4.1 miles | 20 | |
| White Ash | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Attila | 4.2 miles | 17 | |
| Shakerag | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Dog Walk | 4.6 miles | 18 |
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 Pittsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2426466 | 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 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.











