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Bartlett, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60103. The Survey maps it on the West Chicago quadrangle. 41,105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Bartlett within Cook County

Population over time

3 figures

Bartlett grew from 175 to 41,105 between 1880 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
1880175
201041,208
202041,105-103 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bartlett in 2014, burning under an acre 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/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
10 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-357

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bartlett: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bartlett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartlett Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Riverdale Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Hammond Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hammonds Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Mallard Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Route 20 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West Bartlett Plant Land PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

15 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bartlett in 15 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 lightning, 1 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
August 2008Thunderstorm WindBartlett$50,000Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down at a horse farm. Two barns sustained roof damage and a pickup truck was heavily damaged but no horses were injured.
May 2008LightningBartlett$10,000Lightning struck a high voltage transmission line near the intersection of Stearns Road and Route 59 which knocked out two distribution substations which caused 45,000 customers to loose power.
April 2010LightningBartlett$5,000Power lines were blown down onto a house on Cedar Avenue which started a small fire. The fire damage to the house was minimal but the house sustained smoke damage throughout.
April 2026Flash FloodBartlett-Widespread flash flooding occurred across parts of northern Cook County where numerous vehicles were disabled in flood waters including in Hoffman Estates, Hanover Park and Medinah. At least two vehicles were stuck in flood waters on Weathersfield Way near Schaumburg. A vehicle was disabled in flood waters on Busse Road under the Interstate 90 bridge. Four cars were stuck in flood waters at the intersection of Roselle Road and Wise Road. Street and viaduct flooding was reported in Des Plaines and Mount Prospect. At least one basement flooded in Schaumburg and at least two basements flooded in Mount Prospect. Rainfall amounts included 2.63 inches in Mount Prospect; 2.62 inches two miles east of Schaumburg and 2.10 inches in Elk Grove Village.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBartlett-A large healthy tree limb was blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBartlett-Widespread tree and power line damage occurred in Barlett.
July 2024FloodBartlett-Multiple reports of street flooding were received from Bartlett and Hanover Park including 3 inches of standing water on North Avenue just west of Route 20.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBartlett-Trees and power lines were downed in Bartlett.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBartlett-A large tree was uprooted.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBartlett-Wires were blown down in Hanover Township.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBartlett-A roughly six inch diameter tree limb was blown down onto a car.
August 2003HailBartlett-Quarter size hail was reported covering the ground.
April 2023HailBartlett-no account filed
June 2012HailBartlett-no account filed
March 2004HailBartlett-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
Streamwood2.1 miles20
Spaulding2.7 miles20
Sherwood Oaks3.0 miles20
Schaumburg6.0 miles22
Hoffman Estates6.5 miles22
Sutton7.0 miles20
South Barrington7.5 miles22
Barrington Center8.0 miles20

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 BartlettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q287459The 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 403941. 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.