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Alsip, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Worth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60803. It stands on Tinley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blue Island quadrangle. 19,063 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Alsip within Cook County

On record in Alsip

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

Population over time

2 figures

Alsip fell from 19,277 to 19,063 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
201019,277
202019,063-214 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Alsip: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Worth PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Yard No. 22 Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alsip in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAlsip-Minor gutter damage to homes was reported.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAlsip-Aluminum flagpole bent over and snapped off. Branches off of trees. Aluminum panels pulled off fascia on home. Relayed via twitter. Time estimated by radar.
June 2012HailAlsip-Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported near Interstate 294 and Cicero Avenue.
October 2007HailAlsip-Quarter size hail was reported on Interstate 294.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAlsip-Large limbs, several trees and flag poles were knocked down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAlsip-Large limbs were torn off of trees.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindAlsip-Winds blew out windows of a house in Alsip. Tree limbs were blown down on the south side of Chicago.
May 2024HailAlsip-no account filed
February 2017HailAlsip-no account filed
February 2017HailAlsip-no account filed
May 2004HailAlsip-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAlsip-no account filed
June 2002HailAlsip-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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
Crestwood0.9 miles27
Hazel Green1.0 miles25
Merrionette Park2.3 miles25
Robbins2.5 miles25
Mount Greenwood2.6 miles25
Palos Heights3.1 miles27
Oak Lawn3.1 miles27
Chicago Ridge3.1 miles27

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 AlsipAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2668403The 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 403460. 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.

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.