BlockVilla Ridge, Illinois
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Villa Ridge precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62996. The Survey maps it on the Pulaski quadrangle. It stands 387 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 24 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.
- 1931 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1933 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1953 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:62500
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Pulaski quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Cape Girardeau quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Villa Ridge in 2011, burning about 4 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 | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 February 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge | RUN CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Villa Ridge: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulaski County Highway Department | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Villa Ridge in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa Ridge | $5,000 | Trees were blown down, and power outages were reported. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa Ridge | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were down across portions of the community. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Villa Ridge | - | Hail estimated to baseball size fell in Villa Ridge as a supercell storm moved eastward. No damages were noted in this report. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa Ridge | - | Trees were down on Old U.S. Highway 51. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa Ridge | - | Large tree limbs and a tree were blown down on U.S. Highway 51. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Villa Ridge | - | A large tree was blown across railroad tracks near Villa Ridge. A couple of trees were down east of Pulaski. |
| September 2017 | Hail | Villa Ridge | - | no account filed |
| December 2015 | Hail | Villa Ridge | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Villa Ridge | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Heights | 2.2 miles | 24 | |
| North Mounds | 2.5 miles | 27 | |
| Mounds | 3.1 miles | 27 | |
| Pryortown | 3.3 miles | 24 | |
| Pulaski | 3.8 miles | 24 | |
| America | 4.0 miles | 25 | |
| Mound City | 5.3 miles | 27 | |
| Olmsted | 5.8 miles | 25 |
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 Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7930475 | 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 420315. 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.