BlockRed Bud, Illinois
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Red Bud precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62278. The Survey maps it on the Red Bud quadrangle. 3,804 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.
On record in Red Bud
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Red Bud Historic Districtlisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresRed Bud grew from 3,698 to 3,804 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 | 3,698 | |
| 2020 | 3,804 | +106 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1912 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Red Bud quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Pinckneyville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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 Red Bud: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
33 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Bud in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 21 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2009 | Hail | Red Bud | 1 hurt | One person sustained minor cuts when the large hail shattered a window in their home. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Bud | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused a power pole to fall across a roadway and a tree to fall on a house south of Red Bud. There was minor damage to the house. Several trees and power lines were knocked down in Sparta, and there was a tree down over a roadway near Eden. Cities in the path of the storm include Baldwin and Houston. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Bud | - | Thunderstorm winds caused snapped softwood trees and a large hardwood tree. A power pole was also snapped, and a machine shed incurred significant damage. |
| March 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Bud | - | An emergency manager reported power lines down on the south side of Red Bud, IL. No further information was given on the power lines. This was the same thunderstorm that produced golf ball sized hail in Ruma to the south. |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | Red Bud | - | Up to four inches of rain fell in a two hour period on already saturated soils. This caused flash flooding in northwestern portions of Randolph County. Numerous roads were flooded including Illinois Route 3 near Ruma. |
| November 2017 | Hail | Red Bud | - | Large hail was reported in a swath from Red Bud, through Baldwin, Houston and into Sparta. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Bud | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines in Red Bud, Baldwin, and Sparta. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Bud | - | Four power poles were broken by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Red Bud | - | One inch hail caused some damage to cars in the Red Bud area. No damage estimates were available. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Red Bud | - | Numerous reports of hail from nickel to golf ball size were received from storm spotters and the general public. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Red Bud | - | Heavy rain quickly flooded local roads with as much as eight inches of water. |
| January 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Bud | - | A NWS cooperative observer reported wind damage to a grain bin and a couple of farm outbuildings. |
| February 2006 | Hail | Red Bud | - | A storm spotter reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Bud | - | Storm spotters reported a couple of 2 foot diameter pine trees snapped by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Red Bud | - | Storm spotters reported 1 inch hail. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Red Bud | - | A small tornado caused damage over a half mile long track southeast of Red Bud. A home located just south of the intersection of Ritchfield and South Prairie Road sustained severe damage. Most of the roof was blown off and the west and south walls were severely damaged. A machine shed was destroyed and another moved off of its foundation. Several large trees in the area were snapped off near the ground. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Red Bud | - | Spotters reported golfball size hail. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| October 2010 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Bud | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Red Bud | - | 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.
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 Red Bud | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q574895 | 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 416449. 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.