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Arlington Heights, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Wheeling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60004. The Survey maps it on the Arlington Heights quadrangle. 77,676 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Arlington Heights within Cook County

On record in Arlington Heights

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Arlington Heights grew from 76,031 to 77,676 between 2000 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
200076,031
201075,101-930 (-1%)
202077,676+2,575 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

In the county-history sources

68,433 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Wheeling Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Wheeling Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Arlington Heights: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mount Prospect City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Palatine City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Rolling Meadows Dept of Public WorkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

8 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arlington Heights in 8 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindArlington Heights-A tree fell onto power lines along S Vail Ave in Arlington Heights.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindArlington Heights-Tree limbs 6 to 8 inches in diameter were blown down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindArlington Heights-A photo was shared of a six inch diameter tree limb that was snapped.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindArlington Heights-Mature trees were blown down in Arlington Heights. Numerous tree limbs were also blown down, some blocking roads.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindArlington Heights-A large tree limb and a power line were blown down along Arlington Heights Road, north of Rand Road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindArlington Heights-Several tree limbs were blown down. One large tree limb fell on a home and some cars.
August 2025HailArlington Heights-no account filed
April 2023HailArlington Heights-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
Rolling Meadows1.7 miles22
Prospect Heights2.3 miles19
Williamsburg2.6 miles22
Mount Prospect2.8 miles19
Fairfax Village2.8 miles22
Creekside3.0 miles22
Winthrop Village3.0 miles22
Plum Grove Village3.2 miles22

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 Arlington HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q997132The 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 403611. 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.