97.86 acres of farm and timber land near Tower Hill, Shelby County
This 97.86-acre farm and timber parcel was last deeded in Sep 2023, has mapped wetlands on 97% of it and is not on FEMA's digital flood map.
26 Hoot Owl Trail · Parcel 2311-30-02-502-048
County file October 2026
At a glance
- BuildZoning not on file
- GroundAbout 2.72 of 97.9 acres outside mapped wetlands
- AccessFronts a public road
- ValueAssessed value not on file · no priced sale · deed Sep 2023 (not arm's-length per the county)
- Acres97.86About 2.72 of 97.9 acres outside mapped wetlands
- Land typeFarm and timber
- ZoningWe have not collected a zoning map for City of Pana yet
- Flood zoneNot on FEMA's digital flood map
- Wetlands97% of the parcelNational Wetlands Inventory
- Assessed value (county)No assessed value in the county file we use (as of Oct 2026)Shelby County's open parcel layer publishes no assessed values
- Last saleNo priced sale · deed Sep 2023Not arm's-length per the county
- Road accessHas road accessRoads: US Census TIGER/Line 2026 roads, as of 2026-10-06
Land facts
From public records and official maps, each with its source and date.
- Who zones itCity of PanaCensus city limits, Jan 2025
- Section, township, rangeSection 30, Township 11 North, Range 2 East, Third Principal MeridianBLM PLSS (CadNSDI), at the parcel's center · Oct 2026
- Septic (soils)Not ratedUSDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), septic absorption fields; map unit: Water · Oct 2026
- Nearest public wastewater plantAbout 4 miles (straight line) · City of Pana STPEPA ECHO discharge permits for publicly owned treatment works, Oct 2026 · Not a sewer line at this lot. Plants that do not discharge to a river or stream (spray fields, percolation ponds) are not on EPA's list, so one could be closer
- Ground elevationAbout 641 ft above sea level; average slope 0.0% (flat)USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second DEM, NAVD88; about ±1–2 ft · Sep 2026
- HighwaysIL 16 is 1.4 mi away and I-70 interchange is 26.4 mi away, in a straight lineUS Census TIGER/Line 2026 roads · Oct 2026
- Nearest fire stationAbout 3.3 miles (straight line) · Pana Fire DepartmentUSGS National Structures Dataset, fire and EMS stations, Oct 2026 · straight line, not road miles. Insurers' fire protection class (ISO) counts road miles to a responding station, often 5 or fewer. A station missing from the federal list would be closer
- Nearest emergency roomAbout 3.5 miles (straight line) · Pana Community HospitalCMS Care Compare hospital list (hospitals that report an emergency department), located by the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, Jul 2026 · straight line, not road miles or drive time. Names as filed with Medicare. Veterans', military, children's and psychiatric hospitals are not counted
Services and surroundings
What serves the area around this parcel, from federal and state maps. Area facts, not a survey of the lot.
- USDA home loan areaInside an eligible areaHousehold income limits also apply. USDA Rural Development map, edited Jul 2023.
- Well depth nearbyMedian 30 ft (middle half 27–37 ft)From 96 household well logs within 1 mi, drilled 1975–2022. Area figures, not this parcel. Illinois State Geological Survey wells database.
School district and farmland
Public federal records, each with its source and date.
- School districtPana Community Unit School District 8Grades pre-K–12 · NCES EDGE school district boundaries, school year 2024–25 (Census TIGER 2025 lines), released Mar 2026. A district, not an assigned school
- Farmland classNot prime farmlandMap unit Water, most of the parcel · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), survey area IL173, version Aug 2026
- Land capability classClass 8 of 8: not for crops, pasture or timberNon-irrigated, Water; class 1 has the fewest limits · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO), version Aug 2026
- Cropland rent$255 an acre a yearCounty average, non-irrigated, 2026 · USDA NASS county cash rents survey, released August 21, 2026
- Pasture rent$48 an acre a yearCounty average, 2026 · USDA NASS county cash rents survey, released August 21, 2026
District details at NCES: Pana Community Unit School District 8
Crops and forest
Public federal records, each with its source and year. Satellite classifications, not farm records.
- Hydric soilsNone mappedShare of the outline on soils rated hydric: the soil test of a wetland determination and of an NRCS wetland reserve easement (ACEP-WRE) · USDA NRCS soil survey (SSURGO)
- CRP rental rate (county)$228 an acre a yearThe county's 2026 average dryland soil rental rate (was $263): the base of a new Conservation Reserve contract's yearly rent; each field's rate follows its soils · USDA FSA, CRP 2026 county average soil rental rates
Utility service areas
Public service-area maps, each with its source and date. An area, not a connection at this parcel.
- Electric service areaInside the service area of Shelby Electric Co-op, Inc, Southwestern Electric Co-op Inc or Ameren Illinois Company (approximate)The mapped areas overlap here · HIFLD electric retail service territories, frozen 2025 copy, edited Aug 2025; approximate, confirm with the utility.
- Water system areaInside the service area of Ej Water CooperativePublic water system IL0790010 · EPA public water system service areas, edited May 2026; boundary supplied by the utility. Not a water line at the lot.
Environmental records
Public state and federal lists, each with its agency and date. A record is not a finding about this parcel.
- Red flags8 environmental lists checked · landfills and dry cleaners not checkedGroundwork check of public lists: Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA), Bureau of Land, as of Oct 25, 2026; U.S. EPA, as of Oct 2026; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as of Aug 31, 2026; USGS Gap Analysis Project, as of 2025
Mapped ground hazards
Mapped features from ISGS maps, each with its agency and date. Distances are from the parcel's map point; a mapped area is not a finding about this parcel. Not checked here: karst and sinkholes, oil and gas wells, non-coal mines, landslides.
- Underground coal mineNone mapped within 1/4 miISGS: Abandoned and Active Coal Mines in Illinois (underground), as of Jan 2012. ISGS outlines from company mine maps; approximate outer boundaries, not a legal or engineering base; the source rates these outlines for regional use only, at 1:100,000 scale or smaller
- Surface coal mineNot in a mapped surface coal mineISGS: Abandoned and Active Coal Mines in Illinois (surface and auger), as of Jun 2011. ISGS outlines; approximate, not a legal or engineering base; the source rates these outlines for regional use only, at 1:100,000 scale or smaller
Free account: 25 parcel cards a day on the map, with watches and a saved search
Illinois 2026 taxes are billed in 2027: the first installment is due no earlier than June 1, 2027.
Sources: Illinois Property Tax Code 35 ILCS 200/21-15, 35 ILCS 200/21-25, 35 ILCS 200/21-30 and 35 ILCS 200/16-55. Checked Oct 13, 2026.
What land sells for nearby
Land in Shelby County sold for:
- 10 acres or more: $6.7k–$14.8k an acre (30 sales, Oct 2025–Sep 2026); median $9,200
- Lots under 1 acre: $10.5k–$24.0k a lot (12 sales, Oct 2024–Sep 2026); median $15.2k
- 1 to 10 acres: $8.3k–$22.4k an acre (17 sales, Oct 2024–Sep 2026); median $10k
The middle half (25th to 75th percentile) and the median of arm's-length single-parcel land sales. Each size uses its own months (the shortest of 12, 24 or 36 that holds enough sales), so the sizes' counts need not add up to another figure on this page. Source: Illinois Department of Revenue PTAX-203 declarations, land or farm at the sale, screen S1. Recorded sales, not an estimate of any parcel.
Home values in Shelby County rose about 47% over 5 years and 5% in the last year (FHFA, 2025).
Assessed value
- How Illinois assessesIllinois assesses property at one third of its fair cash value (35 ILCS 200/9-145); Cook County classifies, assessing homes at 10% and commercial property at 25%. Farmland is valued on its soil productivity (35 ILCS 200/10-110 to 10-125). An assessed value is not what the property would sell for.35 ILCS 200 (Property Tax Code)
Tax area
- TownshipTower HillShelby County parcel layer
- Tax code23014 (the county's tax-rate area)Shelby County parcel layer
Buildings and use
- UseFrom the county's property class (30)
Owner: on the county assessment roll (not shown here). Request removal
Data: Shelby County
Hazards
FEMA National Risk Index for this census tract, not this parcel. As of Dec 2025.
- Cold wave
- Very high
- Lightning
- Very high
- Strong wind
- Relatively high
- Riverine flooding
- Relatively high
- Winter weather
- Relatively high
- Drought
- Relatively high
- Tornado
- Relatively moderate
- Hail
- Relatively moderate
- Heat wave
- Relatively moderate
- Earthquake
- Relatively moderate
Recorded flood claims
OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, as of Sep 2026
- Claims since 1978
- Fewer than 10Insured buildings in this census tract
Federal disaster declarations
Federal disaster declarations in Shelby County since 2000: 8 (most recently Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, and Tornadoes, December 2021).
- 2 biological emergencies (COVID-19)
- 2 tornadoes
- 1 flood
- 1 hurricane
- 1 ice storm
- 1 snowstorm
Development nearby
Little new development: under 5 acres within a mile turned from farmland, forest or other open land into developed land in 2020–2025.
- 2020–2025
- Under 5 acresWithin a mile, open land turned developed
- 2015–2025
- About 6 acresThe same, over 10 years
- Typical in Shelby County
- Under 5 acresThe middle of the county's land, 2020–2025
Neighborhood (Census)
Census ACS 2020–2024 5-year, as of Jan 2026
- Median household income
- $99,194± $19,358
- Median home value (owner-reported)
- $148,400± $31,999 · census tract (block group sample too small)
- Median rent (gross)
- $693± $296 · census tract (block group sample too small)
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 77%± 20 pts
- Median year homes were built
- 1973± 23 yr
- Average commute (one way)
- 25 min± 10 min · census tract (not published for block groups)
- Population
- 448± 177
Figures for the census block group around this parcel (a few hundred homes), not this property. This product uses Census Bureau data but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
Nearby parcels
Land and farm parcels of 1 acre or more in Shelby County, nearest first.
- 5 Aster Drive97.9 acres · Farm and timber · under 0.1 mi
- 1 Azalea Court97.9 acres · Farm and timber · under 0.1 mi
- 13 Angler Trail97.9 acres · Farm and timber · under 0.1 mi
- 24 Angler Trail97.9 acres · Farm and timber · under 0.1 mi
- 3 Autumn Drive97.9 acres · Farm and timber · under 0.1 mi
- 17 Anchor Drive97.9 acres · Farm and timber · under 0.1 mi
- 644 E 1100 North Rd97.9 acres · Farm and timber · under 0.1 mi
- 638 E 100 North Road97.9 acres · Farm and timber · under 0.1 mi
Land and farm parcels of 1 acre or more in Shelby County: 1,233 parcel pages
Sources & methodSources, county file October 2026
At a glance: each fact's source and date
Each figure in the grid above, where it comes from and the date of the file or map we read.
Acres: Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, county file Oct 13, 2026.
Land type: Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, county file Oct 13, 2026.
Zoning: Our zoning map coverage, map built Oct 14, 2026.
Flood zone: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, as of Oct 11, 2026.
Wetlands: USFWS National Wetlands Inventory, as of Oct 1, 2026.
Assessed value (county): Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, county file Oct 13, 2026.
Last sale: Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, sales through Oct 9, 2026.
Road access: Roads: US Census TIGER/Line 2026 roads, as of 2026-10-06.
What land sells for nearby
This tracks home values, not land values. Land buyers read it as a sign of demand nearby: where homes gain value, builders and buyers follow. A vacant lot can move differently.
How: the change in FHFA's annual county index from 2020 and 2024 to 2025, rounded. The index follows repeat sales and refinance appraisals of the same single-family homes with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac mortgages. It is in today's dollars, not adjusted for inflation, and FHFA calls these local indexes developmental. Where FHFA's sample is too small it publishes no figure, and none prints here.
Source: FHFA House Price Index, all-transactions, annual county index, 2025, last updated March 31, 2026. Method: Bogin, Doerner and Larson, “Local House Price Dynamics: New Indices and Stylized Facts”, FHFA Working Paper 16-01.
Hazards
Ratings come from FEMA's National Risk Index (v1.20, planning-level) and the public federal and state maps named on each row, not a private climate model. FEMA rates each census tract from expected annual losses, community resilience and social vulnerability, for planning; it is not an assessment of this parcel.
Recorded flood claims
Insured buildings near this parcel, not the parcel itself. FEMA counts claims on buildings with NFIP flood insurance, so land that never had an insured building has no claims to count. The count is the parcel's census block group when it has 10 or more, else its tract's; a count under 10 prints as "Fewer than 10". Source: OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3.
Federal disaster declarations
Each federal declaration whose designated areas include the county, declared from January 2000 on, counted once by its FEMA disaster number. An emergency declaration and a major-disaster declaration for the same storm are two declarations, as FEMA numbers them. Declarations for tribal lands alone are not counted. The date shown is when the most recent incident began. Types are FEMA's incident types: an evacuation emergency for a storm elsewhere (Hurricane Katrina, 2005) counts under that storm. By kind: 5 major disasters and 3 emergencies.
Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset: Disaster Declarations Summaries - v2, as of October 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data.
Development nearby
Counted from USGS Annual NLCD land cover (USGS Annual NLCD Collection 1.2, 30 m maps made from Landsat imagery, 2015, 2020 and 2025; public domain, DOI 10.5066/P94UXNTS). A 30 m square counts when it was forest, shrub, grassland, pasture, cropland or wetland in the start year and developed in 2025: NLCD's developed classes, from lawns, parks and roads to dense buildings. The squares are summed over the land within about a mile of this parcel's center on a 240 m grid, so the figures are rounded. "Most of the county" compares the same one-mile figure across the county's land. A satellite land-cover map misses some changes and mislabels a few, so read it as a guide to how fast the area is building out, not a survey. As of 2025 land cover.
Neighborhood (Census)
± is the Census 90% margin of error; a figure comes from the larger census tract when the block group's sample is too small.
Parcel outline
The outline and its edge lengths are measured on the parcel map the map draws; the aerial loads from the public imagery named under it.
Source
Illinois county assessor and GIS parcel layers, the Cook County Assessor's open data, and IDOR PTAX-203 transfer declarations, county file Oct 13, 2026.
Record
Public records can be wrong; check before you act.
Parcel: 2311-30-02-502-048
Coordinates: 39.3701° N, 89.0206° W