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.
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
- Burr Oak Cemetery Historic Districtlisted 2026
Population over time
2 figuresAlsip 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 19,277 | |
| 2020 | 19,063 | -214 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 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.
- 1892 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Yard No. 22 Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | Minor gutter damage to homes was reported. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Alsip | - | Hail up to the size of golf balls was reported near Interstate 294 and Cicero Avenue. |
| October 2007 | Hail | Alsip | - | Quarter size hail was reported on Interstate 294. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | Large limbs, several trees and flag poles were knocked down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | Large limbs were torn off of trees. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | Winds blew out windows of a house in Alsip. Tree limbs were blown down on the south side of Chicago. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Hail | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Hail | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alsip | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Alsip | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crestwood | 0.9 miles | 27 | |
| Hazel Green | 1.0 miles | 25 | |
| Merrionette Park | 2.3 miles | 25 | |
| Robbins | 2.5 miles | 25 | |
| Mount Greenwood | 2.6 miles | 25 | |
| Palos Heights | 3.1 miles | 27 | |
| Oak Lawn | 3.1 miles | 27 | |
| Chicago Ridge | 3.1 miles | 27 |
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 Alsip | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2668403 | 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 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.











