Crystal Lawns, Illinois
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Plainfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60435. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle. 1,830 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCrystal Lawns fell from 1,872 to 1,830 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 | 1,872 | |
| 2020 | 1,830 | -42 (-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 quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,852 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 Plainfield Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Plainfield Township - 1,852 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Crystal Lawns in 2018, burning about 25 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 25 acres | Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie | DRUMMOND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Crystal Lawns: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 plants. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 | ||
| Plainfield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Plainfield Plant & Mine | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Avery No. 2 Pit & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Gross & Mc Cowan Lumber Co. Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Limestone Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Rockdale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal Lawns in 20 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | $800,000 | Hundreds of trees were blown down across Joliet, including some that fell onto structures. Nineteen power lines were blown down. There were 56 road closures across town due to debris. |
| June 2025 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Lawns | - | A personal weather station in Plainfield recorded 2.62 of storm total rain through 5 PM LST, 2.05 of which were recorded in one hour. |
| April 2025 | Flood | Crystal Lawns | - | A few reports of street flooding were received from the Crystal Lawns, Crest Hill and Lockport areas. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | Mulitple trees, large tree limbs and power lines were blown down on the northwest side of Joliet. A fence was partially blown down and two fence posts were snapped. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | Several tree limbs 6 inches in diameter were blown down along Silver Rock Drive. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | Tree damage was reported near Gaylord Road and Frontier Lane. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | Power lines were blown down on Theodore St and Cedarwood Dr. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar. |
| July 2023 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Lawns | - | A Cocorahs observer recorded 2.54 inches of rain between approximately 7:30 AM and 9:40 AM CST. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Crystal Lawns | - | Rainfall of 2.11 inches was measured in 1 hour. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | Widespread wind damage occurred across much of northwest Joliet from Caton Farm Road and Interstate 55 southeast through Larkin Avenue and Black Road. Several hundred trees were damaged with hundreds of tree limbs blown down. Large tree limbs blocked some roads. A few pine trees had the top of the tree sheared off. Power lines were blown down in many areas. Hundreds of residential fences were damaged with many sections of fencing blown down. Some homes suffered minor roof damage with primarily some shingles blown off. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Crystal Lawns | - | Standing water 7 to 8 inches deep was reported curb to curb on Infantry Drive. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Crystal Lawns | - | Quarter size hail was reported near Larkin Avenue and Black Road. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | Extensive tree damage was reported between Black Road and Glenwood Avenue. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Crystal Lawns | - | Quarter size hail reported at Gaylord and Renwick. |
| October 2006 | Hail | Crystal Lawns | - | Nickel to quarter size hail reported at Route 59 and Theodore. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | Three to four inch diameter tree limbs blown down. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | A twelve inch diameter tree was blown down blocking State Street in Joliet. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | Large tree limbs blown down near Glenwood and Midland Avenue. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal Lawns | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Crystal Lawns | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erin | 0.2 miles | 23 | |
| Picardy | 0.4 miles | 23 | |
| Sunnyland | 0.7 miles | 23 | |
| Crest Estates | 0.9 miles | 23 | |
| Coynes | 0.9 miles | 23 | |
| Grand Prairie | 0.9 miles | 23 | |
| Wexford | 0.9 miles | 23 | |
| Heritage Lake Estates | 1.0 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 Crystal Lawns | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q575864 | 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 1867267. 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.









