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.
Population over time
2 figuresCalumet 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 37,042 | |
| 2020 | 36,033 | -1,009 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 27 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.
- 1892 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000
- 1968 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Calumet City quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Us Steel Lead Smeltr & Refinery | Antimony, Lead | Plant | ||
| City of Calumet - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| East Chicago Plant-U.S. Gypsum Co. | Gypsum-Anhydrite, Perlite | Plant | ||
| Harbison-Walker/ Hammond, Ind. | Chromium | Producer | ||
| Indiana Harbor Limekiln | Limestone, General | Plant | ||
| J & L Steel/ Indiana Harbor Works | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Natl. Briquette Corp. Plant | Fluorine-Fluorite | Producer | ||
| Yard R Clay Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| (Facility) Amoco/ Whiting Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| East Chicago Plant-Energy Coop. | Sulfur | Unknown |
Storms near this place
7 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2001 | Lightning | Calumet City | 1 hurt | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Flash Flood | Calumet City | $50,000 | Multiple 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calumet City | - | Significant tree damage occurred in a forest preserve just north of Green Lake. |
| July 2023 | Flash Flood | Calumet City | - | Flooding was reported on State Line Road near Russell Street between Calumet City and Hammond. |
| January 2013 | Hail | Calumet City | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Calumet City | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calumet City | - | 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.
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q577862 | 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 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.












