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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.

Clarendon Hills within DuPage County

Population over time

2 figures

Clarendon 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.

YearPeople Change
20108,427
20208,702+275 (+3%)

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.

In the county-history sources

3,959 words on this township

History 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 2005

Regional 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
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 DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Downers Grove City PitStonePast Producer
Kugler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Federal Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wester Springs City Eng.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

12 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Thunderstorm WindClarendon Hills$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindClarendon 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 2021Flash FloodClarendon Hills-Street flooding was reported in Hinsdale.
July 2019Flash FloodClarendon 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 2019Heavy RainClarendon Hills-Rainfall of 3.00 inches was measured in one hour near Cass and Ogden Avenues.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindClarendon Hills-Power lines were blown down.
October 2006HailClarendon Hills-no account filed
March 2005HailClarendon Hills-no account filed
March 2005HailClarendon Hills-no account filed
July 2003HailClarendon Hills-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindClarendon Hills-no account filed
August 2003HailClarendon Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
Hinsdale1.0 miles23
Westmont1.1 miles23
Willowbrook2.2 miles23
Fullersburg2.4 miles23
Oak Brook2.8 miles23
Downers Grove3.1 miles21
Lace3.2 miles23
Oakbrook Terrace3.7 miles23

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 HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2574398The 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.