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Austin, Illinois

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chicago City. It lies in ZIP code area 60644. It lies near Players Hill. The Survey maps it on the River Forest quadrangle.

Austin within Cook County

On record in Austin

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 within a mile 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Chicago city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Politics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois : Memorial Volume, 1787-1887; a Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1887 - Chicago City

Index To Content

Chapter I. - First Settler of Chicago, 5. Various Appellations of Chicago. .Garies' River, 6. The Main River Bed Changed. .Chicago in Virginia. .Treaty of Greenville. . Original Site of Chicago. .Illinois in Indiana Territory. .Fort Dearborn Established. .First Commandants of the Fort. .Massacre of 1S12, 7. Captain John and Lieutenant Wm.

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In the county-history sources

902,150 words on this township

Politics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois : Memorial Volume, 1787-1887; a Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1887; ... History of Chicago, Illinois, published 1895; Historical Review of Chicago and Cook County and Selected Biography. A.N. Waterman ... Ed. and Author of Historical Review, published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Chicago City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Chicago City - 902,150 words.

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 Austin: 2 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
Grand and Campbell Ave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austin in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2011HailAustin$17,000,000Hail 2.0 inches in diameter shattered thousands of glass panes at the Garfield Park Conservatory. Clean up costs were estimated at $2 million while repair and replacement costs were estimated at $15 million.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAustin-Multiple reports of tree damage from around Chicago's Austin neighborhood were relayed via the city's CHI311 program.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAustin-Multiple tree limbs were blown down in northern sections of the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindNorth Austin-Trees, tree limbs, power lines and light poles were blown down in a swath between North Avenue and Madison Street in the North Austin, Austin and South Austin neighborhoods of Chicago.
June 2021Flash FloodNorth Austin-A road underneath an overpass was flooded with a car submerged in the flood waters.
October 2020FloodNorth Austin-A flooded underpass near Grand Avenue and Armitage Avenue resulted in buses needing to be rerouted.
June 2011HailAustin-Hail 2.0 inches in diameter was reported near 5th Avenue and Pulaski Road.
July 2003HailAustin-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
Moreland1.0 miles24
Oak Park1.1 miles26
Mandell1.4 miles26
Central Park1.8 miles24
West Garfield Park1.9 miles24
Whiskey Point2.1 miles26
Hanson Park2.3 miles26
Cragin2.3 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1825832. 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.