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Berkeley, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Proviso Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60163. The Survey maps it on the Elmhurst quadrangle. 5,338 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Berkeley within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Berkeley grew from 5,209 to 5,338 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
20105,209
20205,338+129 (+2%)

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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Berkeley in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Berkeley: 8 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
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bellwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Portable Plant #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Underground No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northlake City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

4 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berkeley in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBerkeley-Multiple trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Berkeley. Large tree limbs blocked streets near Hawthorn and Morris Avenues. At least one house had gutter damage from falling tree limbs.
May 2020Flash FloodBerkeley-Water was reported over a few lanes of Interstate 290 near Interstate 294.
May 2020Flash FloodBerkeley-Heavy rain fell across much of northern Cook County, which caused flooding in many areas. In Elk Grove Village, water was up to doorways in a town home complex near Beisner Road. Nearby retention ponds were overflowing. North of Roselle, a retention pond was overflowing near Marion Street and Arthur Avenue. Street flooding was reported in Hanover Park with 1 to 2 feet of water on Barrington Road. Street flooding was reported in Bartlett. Near Des Plaines, Central Road was closed between Route 45 and Deerlove Road due to flooding. Near Schiller Park, Irving Park Road was flooded near O'Hare Airport with numerous cars flooded. Lawrence Avenue was closed near Interstate 294 due to a flooded underpass. In Northlake, Grand Avenue was closed due to flooding near Interstate 294. Near Golf, Route 58 was closed due to flooding at Route 43. Numerous streets were flooded on the north side of Chicago including at Devon Avenue and Milwaukee. Interstate 94 was briefly closed due to flooding. Multiple water rescues occurred between Interstate 90 at Touhy Avenue. One family waited on the top of their car near Pratt Avenue until firefighters arrived.
April 2020FloodBerkeley-Ramps were closed due to flooding at the interchange of Interstates 88, 290 and 294.

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
Hillside0.8 miles23
Bellwood1.2 miles23
Stone Park1.6 miles23
Northlake2.0 miles23
Melrose Park2.6 miles26
Westchester2.9 miles23
Broadview3.2 miles24
Maywood3.3 miles26

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 BerkeleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671225The 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 421706. 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.