Clarendon Hills, Illinois
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Downers Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60514. The Survey maps it on the Hinsdale quadrangle. 8,702 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClarendon Hills grew from 8,427 to 8,702 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 | 8,427 | |
| 2020 | 8,702 | +275 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 23 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.
- 1891 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1927 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Hinsdale quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
3,959 words on this townshipHistory 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 Downers Grove Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Downers Grove Township - 3,959 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Clarendon Hills 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Clarendon Hills: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downers Grove City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Kugler Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Federal Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wester Springs City Eng.-Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarendon Hills in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarendon Hills | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarendon Hills | - | Widespread damage to trees in Clarendon Hills was determined to be the result of severe straight-line winds with magnitude up to 70 mph. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Clarendon Hills | - | Street flooding was reported in Hinsdale. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Clarendon Hills | - | A retention pond overflowed near 40th Street and Cass Avenue with street flooding reported in the vicinity. Water was also entering a few residential basements. |
| July 2019 | Heavy Rain | Clarendon Hills | - | Rainfall of 3.00 inches was measured in one hour near Cass and Ogden Avenues. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarendon Hills | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Clarendon Hills | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Clarendon Hills | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Clarendon Hills | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Clarendon Hills | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarendon Hills | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Clarendon Hills | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hinsdale | 1.0 miles | 23 | |
| Westmont | 1.1 miles | 23 | |
| Willowbrook | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Fullersburg | 2.4 miles | 23 | |
| Oak Brook | 2.8 miles | 23 | |
| Downers Grove | 3.1 miles | 21 | |
| Lace | 3.2 miles | 23 | |
| Oakbrook Terrace | 3.7 miles | 23 |
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 Clarendon Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2574398 | 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 421753. 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.











