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.
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
Nathaniel Moore Banta Houselisted 1998
Muller Houselisted 1979
Wheeler-Magnus Round Barnlisted 1992
Population over time
3 figuresArlington 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 76,031 | |
| 2010 | 75,101 | -930 (-1%) |
| 2020 | 77,676 | +2,575 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1900 USGS Highwood quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1927 USGS Arlington Heights quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Arlington Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Arlington Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Arlington Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Arlington Heights quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS Arlington Heights quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
68,433 words on this townshipThe 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 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Prospect City Eng | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Palatine City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Rolling Meadows Dept of Public Work | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2021Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington Heights | - | A tree fell onto power lines along S Vail Ave in Arlington Heights. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington Heights | - | Tree limbs 6 to 8 inches in diameter were blown down. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington Heights | - | A photo was shared of a six inch diameter tree limb that was snapped. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington Heights | - | Mature trees were blown down in Arlington Heights. Numerous tree limbs were also blown down, some blocking roads. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington Heights | - | A large tree limb and a power line were blown down along Arlington Heights Road, north of Rand Road. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arlington Heights | - | Several tree limbs were blown down. One large tree limb fell on a home and some cars. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Arlington Heights | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Arlington Heights | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Meadows | 1.7 miles | 22 | |
| Prospect Heights | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Williamsburg | 2.6 miles | 22 | |
| Mount Prospect | 2.8 miles | 19 | |
| Fairfax Village | 2.8 miles | 22 | |
| Creekside | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Winthrop Village | 3.0 miles | 22 | |
| Plum Grove Village | 3.2 miles | 22 |
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 Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q997132 | 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 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.









