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.
Population over time
3 figuresBartlett 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 175 | |
| 2010 | 41,208 | |
| 2020 | 41,105 | -103 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1908 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS West Chicago quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS West Chicago quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS West Chicago quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS West Chicago quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2014Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2014-357 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bartlett Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Bartlett Plant & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| East Riverdale Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Hammond Plant & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hammonds Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Mallard Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Route 20 Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| West Bartlett Plant Land Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartlett | $50,000 | Numerous 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 2008 | Lightning | Bartlett | $10,000 | Lightning 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 2010 | Lightning | Bartlett | $5,000 | Power 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 2026 | Flash Flood | Bartlett | - | 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartlett | - | A large healthy tree limb was blown down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartlett | - | Widespread tree and power line damage occurred in Barlett. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Bartlett | - | 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartlett | - | Trees and power lines were downed in Bartlett. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartlett | - | A large tree was uprooted. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartlett | - | Wires were blown down in Hanover Township. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bartlett | - | A roughly six inch diameter tree limb was blown down onto a car. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Bartlett | - | Quarter size hail was reported covering the ground. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Bartlett | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Bartlett | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Bartlett | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Streamwood | 2.1 miles | 20 | |
| Spaulding | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| Sherwood Oaks | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Schaumburg | 6.0 miles | 22 | |
| Hoffman Estates | 6.5 miles | 22 | |
| Sutton | 7.0 miles | 20 | |
| South Barrington | 7.5 miles | 22 | |
| Barrington Center | 8.0 miles | 20 |
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 Bartlett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q287459 | 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 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.









