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Aroma Park, Illinois

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Aroma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60910. It stands on Iroquois River. The Survey maps it on the Kankakee quadrangle. 664 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Aroma Park within Kankakee County

Population over time

2 figures

Aroma Park fell from 743 to 664 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
2010743
2020664-79 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

29 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Aroma Park between 2009 and 2020, burning about 30 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-4632
29 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesCOGNIS
16 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-4382
1 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0004144
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0003283
28 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-4059
15 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-3838
12 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources18-3790

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kankakee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Aroma Park: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Kankakee Highway Pit No. 1StonePast Producer
Kankakee PitClayPast Producer
Lehigh East QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Azzarelli Pit No.2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Havener Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ohrt Rd. Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kankakee County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aroma Park in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2010Tornado (EF3)Aroma Park1 hurt, $600,000The tornado began 3 miles northwest of St. Anne in Kankakee county. The tornado developed just west of 6000E Road and tracked to the east, where it produced damage to a home and a garage along the road. At this location, a single family home collapsed upon itself, leaving it inhabitable. The garage sustained damage to its roof and exterior walls. The tornado was rated EF2 with winds estimated at around 113 mph.||The tornado continued to move to the east northeast, where it increased in intensity as it encountered yet another family home at the intersection of Route 1 and 4000S Road. This home and the garage/barn next to it sustained considerable damage, leaving the home inhabitable. The damage to the home consisted of all the walls collapsing, with all remaining debris from the house tossed to the northeast. The garage walls collapsed with the contents tossed to the east. Two four-wheelers and a four-door automobile inside the garage were lifted and flipped over as the tornado passed. Further north along Route 1, there was minor structural damage to a couple of homes and several trees uprooted. Damage at this location was rated EF3 with winds estimated at around 142 mph and a path width of 175 yards.||As this tornado continued to the northeast, it lost its intensity as it came across another residence at the intersection of 4000S Road and 8500E Road. Here, a house sustained partial damage to its roof with several surrounding trees having limbs sheared at the top. The tornado weakened at this point, and damage was rated EF1 with winds estimated at around 97 mph and a path width of 50 yards.||The tornado moved to the northeast through a wooded area, causing damage to many trees along its way. The more significant damage occurred near the intersection of 13000E Road and Gamble Road in the Hopkins Park area, where several healthy large hardwood tree tops were sheared or broken. Some homes were damaged by falling trees. The tornado continued to weaken and damage was rated EF1, with winds estimated at around 88 mph, and a path width of 50 yards. It was along 13000E Road where the tornado appeared to lift, with no other damage evident beyond this point.
May 2006Tornado (F1)Aroma Park$75,000The tornado began near Sugar Island at 6000 South and about 3000 East and appears to have ended near 5500 South and 4500 East. The tornado path was embedded in a half mile wide swath of tree limb damage. In the narrow tornado path, more concentrated damage occurred. A large healthy tree was uprooted and other trees had large limbs blown down. Barn roofs were ripped off. A large machine shed was completely destroyed. Wood supports were pulled from the ground, two by fours were snapped and a large steel beam was thrown into a nearby barn. Pieces of metal roof and siding were blown a mile downstream. A camper was rolled over.
June 2025Heavy RainAroma Park-A personal weather station recorded 2.09 of storm total rainfall, 1.73 of which fell over a 30 minute period.
January 2024FloodAroma Park-Flooding was reported of overbank areas along the Kankakee River in Aroma Park.
April 2024HailAroma Park-A trained spotter reported hail east of Kankakee with most hail stones near pea size but with a few up to quarter size mixed in.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAroma Park-Trees and tree limbs were blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAroma Park-Widespread tree damage occurred near the Elks Country Club with numerous trees snapped or blown down along with large tree limbs and power lines also blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAroma Park-Significant tree damage occurred along Sandbar Road. Several trees were uprooted. Several large tree limbs were blown down and one fell onto a parked pickup truck. Power lines were also blown down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindAroma Park-Widespread tree damage occurred northeast of Aroma Park between Bittersweet Drive and Heiland Road. Numerous large tree limbs were blown down. Two houses suffered minor roof damage from the falling tree limbs. Some roads were blocked by the fallen trees. Power lines were also blown down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAroma Park-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Aroma Park.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindAroma Park-Trees were blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAroma Park-Several trees were blown down south and east of Aroma Park.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindAroma Park-A gustnado was observed 2 miles north of Chebanse in a field near 2000 West Road by a trained spotter. It lasted about 1 minute. There was no damage.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindAroma Park-A storage building was damaged in Aroma Park. The roof of an industrial building was damaged in Bradley.
July 2003HailAroma Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kankakee 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
Kankakee3.8 miles14
Sammons Point4.0 miles14
Otto4.8 miles15
West Kankakee4.9 miles15
Bradley5.0 miles15
Sugar Island5.1 miles14
Sun River Terrace5.2 miles14
Exline5.4 miles15

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 Aroma ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2517904The 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 403637. 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.