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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.

Crest Hill within Will County

Population over time

2 figures

Crest 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.

YearPeople Change
201020,837
202020,459-378 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

2,883 words on this township

The 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 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lockport Pit/Yard 15Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
U S Refactories Div. MillMagnesiteProducer
(Facility) Mobil Oil Joilet RefinerySulfurPlant
Texaco Lockport PlantSulfurProducer
Avery No. 2 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Gross & Mc Cowan Lumber Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Inland Crushed Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joliet Quarry & Mill Yard 340Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lincoln Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Markgraf Stone Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Will County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2006Thunderstorm WindCrest Hill$250,000Numerous 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 2010Thunderstorm WindCrest Hill$200,000Trees, 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 2010LightningCrest Hill$10,000Lightning struck a water pumping station on Hennipen Drive which knocked the pump out of commission.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCrest Hill$500Shed walls were blown in and several large branches were blown down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCrest 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 2019Thunderstorm WindCrest Hill-A tree was uprooted along Renwick Road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindCrest 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 2017Thunderstorm WindCrest 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 2012Thunderstorm WindCrest 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 2011Thunderstorm WindCrest Hill-Estimated 65 mph winds occurred near the intersection of Caton Farm Road and Essington Road.
February 2008FloodCrest Hill-Standing water was reported in fields and ditches.
August 2008FloodCrest Hill-Five to seven inches of standing water was reported near Caton Farm Road and Route 30.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCrest Hill-A four inch diameter tree was blown down on Gaylord just north of Division Street.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCrest Hill-A large tree was blown down at Sweetbriar Ave and Gaylord Road.
August 2007FloodCrest Hill-Intersection of Route 30 and Larkin flooded.
April 2004HailCrest Hill-Reported near intersection of Renwick Ave. and Weber Rd.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCrest Hill-Large tree limbs down on Gaylord St., south of Division St.
August 2003HailCrest Hill-Reported at Renwick and Weber Roads.
August 2003HailCrest Hill-Reported at Weber and Renwick Roads.
May 2011HailCrest Hill-no account filed
June 2008HailCrest Hill-no account filed
March 2005HailCrest Hill-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindCrest Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Will 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
Raynor Park0.3 miles23
Lidice0.4 miles23
Rockdale Junction0.8 miles23
Larkins Pointe1.7 miles23
Fairmont2.1 miles23
Joliet2.2 miles23
Forest Park2.3 miles23
Fox Meadow2.5 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 Crest HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q121943The 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.