Ridgely, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62702. The Survey maps it on the Springfield West quadrangle.

Ridgely within Sangamon County

On record in Ridgely

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Lazy A Motellisted 1994 · 0.5 miles away
Illinois State Fairgroundslisted 1990 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1907 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1930 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1940 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Springfield West quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Springfield West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Springfield West quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

64,679 words on this township

History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Springfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Thus far all schools had been sustained by individual effort. No good school house had been erected, and no attempt made to establish a permanent institution. It was evident that the growing wants of the community, its safety at home and its reputation abroad, demanded better educational advantages. Many of the prominent citizens felt this want, and determined to meet it. Accordingly, a joint stock company was organized, and an act to incorj^or- ate the Springfield Academy was approved March 1, 1839. In accordance with that act, the following named constituted the first Board of Trustees: Washington lies, F. Webster, Jr., S. T. Logan, John F. Rague, N. H. Ridgely, Robert Allen and Charles R. Matheny.

Passage source: History of Sangamon County, Illinois; Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships ... Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. History of Illinois, published 1881.

In March, 1869, the legislature passed an act vesting in a Board of Education, consisting of nine members, "All the rights, powers and privileges, in relation to schools, school property, real or personal, or school funds, now vested in the City Council of the city of Springfield." The Board of Education was required to certify to the City Council in June each year, the amount of money needed and required for school purposes for the fiscal year, commencing the first Monday in September succeeding each report. The City Council was then required to levy and collect the amount of money so reported, by taxation, and the Board of Education alone, through its proper officers, were permitted to expend it. The first Board of Education consisted of Rev. Francis Springer, President; Rev. J. K. McLean, B. M. Griflith, William E. Shutt, T. W. Dresser, A. L. Knapp, John L. Million, C. A. Helmle, Charles Ridgely.

The following named constitute the ofiicers of the Association in 18sl: C. C. Brown, President; John W. Bunn, Vice-President; Ernst Helmle, Recording Secretary; James T'. Jones, Corresponding Secretary ; B.H. Ferguson, Treasurer; E. F. Leonard, A. N. J. Crook, Henry Remann, Charles Ridgely, Henson Robinson, George N. Black, Directors; Mrs. H. L. Kimball, Librarian.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Springfield Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Fires near this place

11 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ridgely between 2010 and 2014, burning about 95 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
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
5 May 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14-0000148
29 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	13-0000179
24 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14-0000096
23 March 2014	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14-0000093
21 March 2014	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14-0000087
21 March 2011	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	1193
15 March 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	14-0000082
4 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	10349

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sangamon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Ridgely: 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Poston Brick & Concrete Prod. Clay	Clay	Prospect
Airport Landfill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sangamon County Highway Department	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Springfield City Eng.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Springfield Pit Solomon Service	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sangamon 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
Grandview	1.3 miles	20
Starne	1.6 miles	20
Devereux Heights	1.7 miles	20
Streadle	1.8 miles	20
Arlington Heights	1.9 miles	20
Springfield	2.1 miles	19
East Springfield	2.3 miles	19
Bissell	2.9 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1747319. 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.