Naples, Illinois

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Naples-Bluffs precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62665. The Survey maps it on the Meredosia quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 436 feet above sea level.

Naples within Scott County

Population over time

2 figures

Naples fell from 130 to 100 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	130
2020	100	-30 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1928 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1931 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Meredosia SE quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Naples in 2019, burning about 30 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
Smoking	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
9 February 2019	Smoking	30 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	19-209

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Naples: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Illinois Valley Asphalt Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Valley City Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

16 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naples in 16 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 10 flash flood, 4 flood, 2 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
July 2015	Flash Flood	Naples	$300,000	Several rounds of slow moving thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall amounts of 3.00 to 7.00 inches of rain in Scott County during the early morning of July 19th. This area was already saturated from flooding which occurred one week prior. Thus, flash flooding quickly developed which flooded most rural roads in the county. In addition, roads were washed out and mudslides were reported from Winchester through Naples to Bluffs.
October 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	$10,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Rain amounts of 3.00 to 5.00 inches in about a three hour period during the early evening hours, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across much of Scott County. Numerous streets in Winchester were impassable, as were numerous rural roads and highways in the county including parts of Illinois Route 106 which was closed in spots near Alsey.
April 2017	Flood	Naples	-	Rain amounts of 3.00 to 5.00 inches in about a three hour period during the early evening hours, on already saturated ground, resulted in flash flooding across much of Scott County. Numerous streets in Winchester were impassable, as were numerous rural roads and highways in the county including parts of Illinois Route 106 which was closed in spots near Alsey. Additional rain of 0.50 to 1.00 inch during the early morning hours kept many roads flooded. Flood waters subsided by early afternoon on the 30th.
July 2015	Flood	Naples	-	Several rounds of slow moving thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall amounts of 3.00 to 7.00 inches of rain in Scott County during the early morning of July 19th. This area was already saturated from flooding which occurred one week prior. Thus, flash flooding quickly developed which flooded most rural roads in the county. In addition, roads were washed out and mudslides were reported from Winchester through Naples to Bluffs. Additional rainfall caused roads to remain closed through the morning hours of July 19th. The flooding subsided by the mid-afternoon hours.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Heavy rain accumulation of 2.50 to 4.00 in two hours resulted in flash flooding of northern Scott County. Streets in the town of Bluffs were flooded, as was Illinois Route 100 from just north of I-72 through Bluffs. In addition, standing water was reported on I-72 near the Scott - Pike County line. Numerous rural roads were impassable in rural northern Scott County. The flooding subsided rapidly around daybreak.
April 2013	Flood	Naples	-	A few structures in rural parts of western Scott County were damaged by near record levels of flooding on the Illinois River. Agricultural land and several roads adjacent to the river were also damaged. The river stage at Valley City climbed to a level of 26.61 feet on April 27th, which was only four-tenths of a foot lower than the all time record. This crest was nearly 13 feet above flood stage. High impact flooding continued into the month of May 2013.
May 2013	Flood	Naples	-	High impact flooding on the Illinois River continued from April. A few structures in rural parts of western Scott County were damaged by near record levels of flooding on the Illinois River. Agricultural land and several roads adjacent to the river were also damaged. High impact flooding subsided when the river level at Valley City fell below a stage of 21 feet on May 13th. Damage estimates for the buildings, agricultural land and roads were not available for this event.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Rainfall amounts of 3.50 to 5.00, most of which fell between 0500 and 0700 LST, resulted in significant flash flooding across western Scott County. Sandy Creek was out of it's banks, and numerous rural roads were impassable.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Thunderstorms with heavy rain tracking over the same parts of west central Scott County produced rainfall amounts around 4.00 in less than 3 hours during the late morning and early afternoon of June 25th. This produced localized flash flooding during the early afternoon. Parts of Illinois Route 100 were closed, I-72 had standing water, and most rural roads were impassable.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Heavy rainfall rates of more than 1.50 inches per hour for about two hours resulted in flash flooding in northern Scott County. Numerous roads were flooded around the town of Bluffs, including State Highway 100 during the early morning.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Thunderstorms during the late evening hours only produced 1.00 to 2.00 of rain. However, the ground was extremely saturated and flash flooding had occurred at times during the previous week, as well as during the past 24 hours. Thus, rapid flash flooding of creeks and roads occurred across almost all of Scott County. Streets in Winchester were flooded, and Illinois Route 100 and I-72 had standing water. Nearly all rural roads were impassable and closed in Scott County during the early morning due to the flooding.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Thunderstorms during the late evening hours produced 1.00 to 2.00 of rain on extremely saturated ground and areas which already experienced flash flooding earlier in the day and during the previous week. This resulted in rapid flash flooding of creeks, streams and roads in much of Scott County. Illinois Routes 100 and 106 were flooded, I-72 had several areas of standing water, most creeks came out of their banks, and nearly all rural roads were impassable.
May 2009	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Heavy rain of 2.00 to 4.00 inches within two hours produced significant flash flooding of most roads in northern Scott County.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Naples	-	Seven power poles snapped off at ground.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Naples	-	Two feet of water was flowing over the Naples Blacktop Road due to heavy rains.

Every storm recorded in Scott 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Columbus (historical)	0.5 miles	13
Bluffs	3.8 miles	13
Oxville	4.4 miles	13
Exeter	6.4 miles	12
Bloomfield	7.8 miles	13
Merritt	10.6 miles	12
Riggston	10.7 miles	12
Winchester	11.9 miles	12

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 Naples	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q579986	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 414285. 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.