BlockGrand Ridge, Illinois
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Farm Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61325. The Survey maps it on the Streator North quadrangle. 515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 637 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGrand Ridge fell from 560 to 515 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 | 560 | |
| 2020 | 515 | -45 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1925 USGS Streator quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1927 USGS Streator quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Streator North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Ottawa quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,937 words on this townshipHistory of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Farm Ridge Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Farm Ridge Township - 2,937 words.
Storms near this place
4 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Ridge in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Ridge | $10,000 | A machine shed was blown into a roadway. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Grand Ridge | - | A brief tornado was reported north of Grand Ridge. No damage was reported. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grand Ridge | - | A chimney and siding were blown off a house. Utility poles were also blown down. Witnesses reported a possible gustnado with this line of thunderstorms. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Grand Ridge | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reed Crossing | 2.5 miles | 27 | |
| Richards | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Woodland Addition | 4.3 miles | 27 | |
| Farm Ridge | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Stoneyville | 4.7 miles | 27 | |
| Otter (historical) | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Hitt | 5.7 miles | 27 | |
| South Ottawa (historical) | 6.5 miles | 27 |
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 Grand Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2303510 | 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 409266. 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.
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.