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Bannockburn, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2000. It stands in West Deerfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60015. The Survey maps it on the Highland Park quadrangle. 1,013 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Bannockburn within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Bannockburn fell from 1,583 to 1,013 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
20101,583
20201,013-570 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

7,940 words on this township

The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on West Deerfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on West Deerfield Township - 7,940 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Bannockburn between 2019 and 2020, burning about 38 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
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources19-971
15 December 2020Debris and open burning23 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-2498
4 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-2239

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

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 Bannockburn: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Deerfield PitStonePast Producer
Aptakisic Sand Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cow Hey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bannockburn in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2008Flash FloodBannockburn$25,000Numerous basements were flooded in Highland Park. Several roads were also flooded including Trailway Street, Green Bay Road and Park Avenue.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBannockburn-Photos shared on social media showed a large tree limb blocking a roadway near Aitken Drive and Meadow Drive.
April 2023HailBannockburn-Golf ball size hail dented cars and broke headlights and taillights.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Del Mar Woods0.8 miles22
Highmoor1.4 miles22
Everett1.9 miles22
Deerfield1.9 miles22
West Lake Forest2.0 miles22
Lincolnshire2.2 miles23
Riverwoods2.4 miles23
Blodgett2.4 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 BannockburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671607The 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 403878. 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.