Crest Hill, Illinois
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Lockport Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60403. The Survey maps it on the Joliet quadrangle. 20,459 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCrest Hill fell from 20,837 to 20,459 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 | 20,837 | |
| 2020 | 20,459 | -378 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1892 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1923 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Joliet quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,883 words on this townshipThe History of Will County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County ... a Directory of Its Real Estate Owners; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; General and Local Statistics ... History of Illinois ... History of the Northwest .., published 1878 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Lockport Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Lockport Township - 2,883 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Crest Hill: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 3 plants. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lockport Pit/Yard 15 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| U S Refactories Div. Mill | Magnesite | Producer | ||
| (Facility) Mobil Oil Joilet Refinery | Sulfur | Plant | ||
| Texaco Lockport Plant | Sulfur | Producer | ||
| Avery No. 2 Pit & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Gross & Mc Cowan Lumber Co. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Inland Crushed Stone Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Joliet Quarry & Mill Yard 340 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lincoln Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Markgraf Stone Company Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crest Hill in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | $250,000 | Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down on west side of Crest Hill and the north and northwest side of Joliet. Several garage doors damaged by wind. One garage door blown in causing damage to the structure. A fence was also blown down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | $200,000 | Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down between Gaylord and Webb Roads, just south of Plainfield Road. Some trees were uprooted. Several cars and 75 houses suffered damaged. |
| May 2010 | Lightning | Crest Hill | $10,000 | Lightning struck a water pumping station on Hennipen Drive which knocked the pump out of commission. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | $500 | Shed walls were blown in and several large branches were blown down. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | A tree was snapped in half and a fence blown down on the far north side of Joliet, roughly one mile west of US 53. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | A tree was uprooted along Renwick Road. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | Multiple tree limbs 2 to 6 inches in diameter were blown down. One evergreen tree 15 to 20 inches in diameter was uprooted. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | Several large trees limbs were blown down along with a few trees uprooted in a several square block area north of Essington and Theodore Roads. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | Large branches were blown down across Crest Hill. One tree with a five to six inch diameter trunk was snapped in half. Another tree with a four to five inch diameter trunk was broken at the base. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | Estimated 65 mph winds occurred near the intersection of Caton Farm Road and Essington Road. |
| February 2008 | Flood | Crest Hill | - | Standing water was reported in fields and ditches. |
| August 2008 | Flood | Crest Hill | - | Five to seven inches of standing water was reported near Caton Farm Road and Route 30. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | A four inch diameter tree was blown down on Gaylord just north of Division Street. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | A large tree was blown down at Sweetbriar Ave and Gaylord Road. |
| August 2007 | Flood | Crest Hill | - | Intersection of Route 30 and Larkin flooded. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Crest Hill | - | Reported near intersection of Renwick Ave. and Weber Rd. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | Large tree limbs down on Gaylord St., south of Division St. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Crest Hill | - | Reported at Renwick and Weber Roads. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Crest Hill | - | Reported at Weber and Renwick Roads. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Crest Hill | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Crest Hill | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Crest Hill | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crest Hill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raynor Park | 0.3 miles | 23 | |
| Lidice | 0.4 miles | 23 | |
| Rockdale Junction | 0.8 miles | 23 | |
| Larkins Pointe | 1.7 miles | 23 | |
| Fairmont | 2.1 miles | 23 | |
| Joliet | 2.2 miles | 23 | |
| Forest Park | 2.3 miles | 23 | |
| Fox Meadow | 2.5 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 Crest Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q121943 | 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 406778. 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.









