BlockMuddy, Illinois
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Harrisburg Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62946. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Galatia quadrangle. 61 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 374 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMuddy fell from 68 to 61 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 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 61 | -7 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 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.
- 1908 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS Galatia 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 Galatia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Galatia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS West Frankfort quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Muddy: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cave In Rock Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Downstate No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Harrisburg City Eng. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Saline Highway Department | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muddy in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muddy | $60,000 | Trees were blown down. Some trees landed on houses and power lines. Traffic was stopped by debris. Wind-driven hail contributed to some of the damage. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Muddy | - | There were multiple reports of quarter-size hail in the Harrisburg area, from just north of town (near Muddy) to just south of town. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Muddy | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorris Heights | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Harrisburg | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Wasson | 2.3 miles | 17 | |
| Gaskins City | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Garden Heights | 3.1 miles | 20 | |
| Dorrisville | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Buena Vista | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Pankeyville | 4.0 miles | 20 |
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 Muddy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2581003 | 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 414205. 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.
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.