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Venedy, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Venedy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 62214. The Survey maps it on the Venedy quadrangle. 121 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Venedy within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Venedy fell from 138 to 121 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.

YearPeople Change
2010138
2020121-17 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Venedy in 2008, burning about 21 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesLINTKER
27 November 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesSTINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Venedy: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
W.Elkhorn Creek Clay ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venedy in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2023Thunderstorm WindVenedy$3,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a large tree in town.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindVenedy-Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down onto County Highway 6 east of Venedy.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindVenedy-Thunderstorm winds blew down a couple of power lines on the south side of Venedy.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindVenedy-A large tree was blown down onto the road just north of Venedy and another large tree was blown down on Sandpiper Road south southwest of Okawville.
March 2008Flash FloodVenedy-Up to 6 inches of rain fell on already saturated soils in Washington county from the late evening hours of March 17th through March 18th. Numerous roads were flooded throughout the county. Northeast of Hoyleton, there was an estimated 4 feet of water flowing over the intersection of Sycamore Road and Peach Tree Road due to Indian Point Creek overflowing its banks. Also, about 6 miles south southeast of Nashville, Posen Road was inundated about a mile east of Illinois Route 127. The city of Nashville reservoir a mile east of town was dangerously close to overflowing during the event.
March 2008Flash FloodVenedy-Up to two inches of rain fell over a short amount of time over already saturated soils in northwestern Washington county. Water was over Primrose Road northeast of Venedy and Elkhorn Creek was out of its banks in this area.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindVenedy-The County Sheriff reported that thunderstorm winds downed two large trees and some power lines.
November 2013HailVenedy-no account filed
March 1996HailVenedy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Johannisburg0.8 miles11
Stone Church3.3 miles11
Okawville5.7 miles11
Lively Grove6.4 miles10
Caspars6.6 miles11
Biddleborn7.0 miles11
Plum Hill7.6 miles10
Addieville8.3 miles12

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 VenedyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2200144The 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 420247. 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.