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Calumet City, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Thornton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60409. The Survey maps it on the Calumet City quadrangle. 36,033 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Calumet City within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Calumet City fell from 37,042 to 36,033 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
201037,042
202036,033-1,009 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Calumet City: 4 plants, 3 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sulfur, Clay, Chromium, 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
(Facility) Us Steel Lead Smeltr & RefineryAntimony, LeadPlant
City of Calumet - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
East Chicago Plant-U.S. Gypsum Co.Gypsum-Anhydrite, PerlitePlant
Harbison-Walker/ Hammond, Ind.ChromiumProducer
Indiana Harbor LimekilnLimestone, GeneralPlant
J & L Steel/ Indiana Harbor WorksIronUnknown
Natl. Briquette Corp. PlantFluorine-FluoriteProducer
Yard R Clay PitClayProducer
(Facility) Amoco/ Whiting RefinerySulfurPlant
East Chicago Plant-Energy Coop.SulfurUnknown

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calumet City in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2001LightningCalumet City1 hurtno account filed
July 2024Flash FloodCalumet City$50,000Multiple reports of street flooding were received from Blue Island and Calumet Park as well as the Pullman and Hegewisch neighborhoods of Chicago. Water rescues of stranded motorists were reported in the vicinity of 130th Street and Stoney Island Avenue. Multiple basements were flooded in the West Pullman neighborhood and a few basements were flooded in the Hegewisch neighborhood. A public transportation bus was stuck in flood waters in Riverdale and needed to be towed. Water entered an industrial building northeast of Dolton and water entered a second industrial building near the Hegewisch neighborhood, which needed to be evacuated.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCalumet City-Significant tree damage occurred in a forest preserve just north of Green Lake.
July 2023Flash FloodCalumet City-Flooding was reported on State Line Road near Russell Street between Calumet City and Hammond.
January 2013HailCalumet City-no account filed
May 2000HailCalumet City-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCalumet City-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
Schrum1.4 miles27
Globe2.0 miles27
Burnham2.2 miles26
Bernice2.7 miles27
Hegewisch2.8 miles26
Greenwood3.2 miles27
Berger3.4 miles27
Lansing3.5 miles27

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 Calumet CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577862The 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 405372. 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.