BlockCrestwood, Illinois
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Worth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60418. It stands on Tinley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palos Park quadrangle. 10,826 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCrestwood fell from 10,950 to 10,826 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 | 10,950 | |
| 2020 | 10,826 | -124 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1890 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1928 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crestwood: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Yard No. 22 Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crestwood in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Crestwood | - | A USGS rain gauge at Alsip recorded 1.7 inches in a 30 minute period. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph near 147th Street and Cicero Avenue. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crestwood | - | Six trees, 18 to 24 inches in diameter, were snapped off near 147th and Cicero Avenue. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Crestwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Crestwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alsip | 0.9 miles | 25 | |
| Hazel Green | 1.7 miles | 25 | |
| Palos Heights | 2.4 miles | 27 | |
| Robbins | 2.9 miles | 25 | |
| Goeselville | 3.1 miles | 24 | |
| Worth | 3.1 miles | 27 | |
| Midlothian | 3.1 miles | 25 | |
| Chicago Ridge | 3.1 miles | 27 |
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 Crestwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1807599 | 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 406780. 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.