Villa Grove, Illinois

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Camargo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61956. It stands on Jordan Slough. The Survey maps it on the Villa Grove quadrangle. 2,472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 647 feet above sea level.

Villa Grove within Douglas County

On record in Villa Grove

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

Henson Houselisted 2020

Population over time

2 figures

Villa Grove fell from 2,537 to 2,472 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	2,537
2020	2,472	-65 (-3%)

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.

1956 USGS Villa Grove quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Villa Grove quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Villa Grove quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

1,502 words on this township

History of Douglas County, Illinois, published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Camargo Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Camargo Township - 1,502 words.

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villa Grove in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
April 2002	Flash Flood	Villa Grove	1 hurt	Over 6 inches of rain fell over northern portions of Douglas County in the Villa Grove area. This caused considerable flooding. One and a half to two feet of water flowed over roads in town, while roads on the west side of town were covered with 3 to 4 feet of water. Numerous garages and basements were flooded, with one business sustaining flood damage. Numerous people had to be rescued from their vehicles after driving around the baricades blocking flooded roads in town. Around 10 pm, a car was reported washed off the road near the intersection of county road 1350E and 1500N, a few miles west of Villa Grove. Two people were rescued from the car with one occupant sustaining a broken arm. No other injuries were reported.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Grove	$35,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down in Villa Grove.
September 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Grove	$15,000	Several trees were blown down in Villa Grove.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Grove	$10,000	A tree was blown onto a garage in Villa Grove.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Grove	$2,000	A power line was blown down.
June 2020	Flash Flood	Villa Grove	-	Water was flowing across Illinois Route 130 between Camargo and Villa Grove.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Grove	-	A tree was blown down in Villa Grove.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Grove	-	Trees were blown onto 3 homes in Villa Grove.
May 2006	Tornado (F0)	Villa Grove	-	The tornado briefly touched down in a field. No damage or injuries were reported.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Villa Grove	-	Several power lines blown down.
June 2008	Hail	Villa Grove	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Villa Grove	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Villa Grove	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Villa Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Fairland	3.3 miles	11
West Ridge	3.9 miles	11
Camargo	4.3 miles	11
Patterson Springs	5.1 miles	11
Murdock	6.2 miles	11
Hayes	6.3 miles	14
North Prairie Acres	6.8 miles	14
Northgate	7.2 miles	14

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 Villa Grove	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575303	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 420319. 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.

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.