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Berwyn, Illinois

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Berwyn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60402. The Survey maps it on the Berwyn quadrangle. 57,250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Berwyn within Cook County

On record in Berwyn

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 7 records

Population over time

3 figures

Berwyn grew from 5,841 to 57,250 between 1910 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
19105,841
201056,657
202057,250+593 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Berwyn: 6 past producers, 1 plant. 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
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverside Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Summit Quarry Consumers CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Superior Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berwyn in 19 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 flash 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
September 2018Tornado (EF0)Berwyn$10,000A weak EF-0 tornado produced mainly tree damage in western Chicago. The first damage was noted on Arthington Street, just west of Cicero Avenue. A continuous path of mostly minor tree damage extended to the east northeast crossing Interstate 290 near Pulaski Road with the final damage noted near Garfield Park, between 5th Avenue and Jackson Blvd near Central Park Avenue. One tree was blown into an apartment building knocking out windows and a couple of large tree limbs fell onto cars.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindBerwyn$10,000Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Berwyn. Some of the tree limbs fell onto cars.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Multiple 12 inch diameter trees were snapped.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-A photo showed a tree limb roughly 8 inches in diameter snapped in Proska Park.
July 2023Heavy RainBerwyn-A private weather station, KILCICER16 , recorded 8.21 inches of rainfall between roughly 6 AM and 2 PM CST.
July 2023Heavy RainBerwyn-A private weather station, KILCICER16, recorded 8.96 inches of storm total rainfall.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-A large tree was uprooted and numerous large tree limbs were blown down in Berwyn.
June 2021Flash FloodBerwyn-The intersection of 29th Street and Wisconsin Avenue was completely submerged from flood waters. Rainfall of 2.76 inches was measured in 1.5 hours.
May 2020Heavy RainBerwyn-Rainfall of 1.80 inches was measured in one hour.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Tree damage was reported in Cicero.
July 2019Flash FloodBerwyn-Numerous viaducts were completely submerged and impassable, particularly in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Numerous branches were blown down, including several large branches between Ashland and Pulaski and Roosevelt and 31st in the Little Village Neighborhood.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Numerous moderate sized limbs were blown down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-A wind gust to 67 mph was measured in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBerwyn-Several trees were blown down throughout the city.
July 2003HailBerwyn-Quarter size hail was reported at Oak Park and 31st Street.
March 2026HailBerwyn-no account filed
June 2019HailBerwyn-no account filed
September 2000FloodBerwyn-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
Lavergne1.2 miles24
Clyde1.3 miles24
North Riverside1.7 miles24
Riverside1.9 miles24
Stickney2.1 miles24
Cicero2.1 miles24
Forest Park2.3 miles26
Oak Park2.4 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 BerwynAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q578072The 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 404233. 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.