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West Vienna, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Elvira precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62995. The Survey maps it on the Vienna quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

West Vienna within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 20 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

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of West Vienna between 2008 and 2017, burning about 98 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
29 August 2012Smoking12 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMAZE
12 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesPISGAH1
9 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCHARLES PROCTOR
9 March 2013Debris and open burning30 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources13007
4 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources9
28 March 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesDAVIS1
24 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesWILDCAT
15 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesMURPHY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West Vienna: 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Cypress Sandstone ExposureStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Johnson Cty Hwy Dept PitStonePast Producer
Southern Illinois Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Vienna City Eng PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Vienna in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2012: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWest Vienna$20,000Several trees were blown down west of the city limits. There was an unconfirmed report of a measured wind gust to 104 mph in the area.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWest Vienna$3,000Trees were blown down at the intersection of Highways 37 and 146.
October 2012HailWest Vienna-Wind gusts to 45 mph were reported at the same location.
June 2010Funnel CloudWest Vienna-A photograph of an apparent funnel cloud was taken near West Vienna.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Vienna-A couple of trees were down near Route 146.
March 2005HailWest Vienna-Golf-ball size hail was reported at the intersection of Highways 146 and 37 and in Buncombe.
June 2010HailWest Vienna-no account filed
April 2005HailWest Vienna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Buncombe3.0 miles20
Pleasant Grove3.3 miles18
Vienna3.9 miles20
Omar5.0 miles20
Cypress5.1 miles18
Bloomfield5.3 miles20
Bender (historical)5.4 miles20
Elvira5.5 miles18

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 West ViennaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1729108The 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 420941. 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.