Bensenville, Illinois
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Addison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60106. The Survey maps it on the Elmhurst quadrangle. 18,813 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 679 feet above sea level.
On record in Bensenville
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 1 record
Churchville Schoollisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresBensenville grew from 18,352 to 18,813 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 18,352 | |
| 2020 | 18,813 | +461 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 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.
- 1891 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1928 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Elmhurst quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,385 words on this townshipHistory Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Addison Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Addison Township - 2,385 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bensenville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elmhurst Portable Plant #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Underground No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Northlake City Eng. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bensenville in 15 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $60,000 | High winds blew over several bleachers, blew down a fence along with many downed trees in Redmond Park. Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down in parts of Bensenville. Some of the trees fell onto cars. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $50,000 | The roof on two industrial buildings was blown off near County Line Road and Third Avenue. A brick wall of one of the buildings also collapsed. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $50,000 | Trees and tree limbs were blown down. Four houses suffered roof damage. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $40,000 | A roof was blown off a building on Waveland. Part of the roof was tangled in nearby power lines. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $30,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. One tree fell through a house. |
| April 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $25,000 | Most of the roof of an auto shop on Green Street was blown off. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near Jefferson and Marion Roads. |
| July 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Bensenville | - | A tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph touched down just southwest of O'Hare Airport in Bensenville where it damaged trees. The tornado then moved across O'Hare Airport, crossing from DuPage County into Cook County. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | - | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | - | A gust to 60 mph estimated at Route 83 and Thorndale. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bensenville | - | Four trees blown down at White Pines and Pine Grove. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Bensenville | - | Reported along Irving Park Road. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Bensenville | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Bensenville | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Bensenville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Churchville | 1.6 miles | 23 | |
| Wood Dale | 2.1 miles | 23 | |
| Addison | 3.1 miles | 23 | |
| Itasca | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Elmhurst | 3.8 miles | 23 | |
| South Addison | 4.3 miles | 23 | |
| South Elmhurst | 5.0 miles | 23 | |
| Villa Park | 5.2 miles | 23 |
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 Bensenville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q277017 | 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 421705. 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.











