Ryan, Illinois

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.

• 1931 USGS Fithian quadrangle1:48000
• 1943 USGS Fithian quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Fithian quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1968 USGS Oakwood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
• 1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000

History of Vermilion County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and Other Authentic, Though, for the Most Part, Out-of-the-way Sources, published 1879; History of Vermilion County, Illinois : a Tale of Its Evolution, Settlement, and Progress for Nearly a Century, published 1911 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ryan in 2003, burning about 5 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Batestown
• Belgium Row
• Bennett
• Bronson
• Bucktown
• Catlin

Every fire recorded in Vermilion County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ryan: 1 plant, 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.

Every working recorded in Vermilion County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ryan in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 tornado, 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.

Every storm recorded in Vermilion County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 423144. 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.