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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.

Bensenville within DuPage County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Bensenville 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.

YearPeople Change
201018,352
202018,813+461 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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

2,385 words on this township

History 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 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elmhurst Portable Plant #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Underground No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Northlake City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

15 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBensenville$60,000High 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 2010Thunderstorm WindBensenville$50,000The 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 2010Thunderstorm WindBensenville$50,000Trees and tree limbs were blown down. Four houses suffered roof damage.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBensenville$40,000A roof was blown off a building on Waveland. Part of the roof was tangled in nearby power lines.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBensenville$30,000Numerous trees were blown down. One tree fell through a house.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindBensenville$25,000Most of the roof of an auto shop on Green Street was blown off.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindBensenville$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Jefferson and Marion Roads.
July 2024Tornado (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 2008Thunderstorm WindBensenville-Trees were blown down.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBensenville-A gust to 60 mph estimated at Route 83 and Thorndale.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindBensenville-Four trees blown down at White Pines and Pine Grove.
August 2003HailBensenville-Reported along Irving Park Road.
June 2015HailBensenville-no account filed
June 2009HailBensenville-no account filed
October 2006HailBensenville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
Churchville1.6 miles23
Wood Dale2.1 miles23
Addison3.1 miles23
Itasca3.8 miles19
Elmhurst3.8 miles23
South Addison4.3 miles23
South Elmhurst5.0 miles23
Villa Park5.2 miles23

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 BensenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q277017The 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.