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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.

Crystal Lawns within Will County

Population over time

2 figures

Crystal 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,872
20201,830-42 (-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

1,852 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 Plainfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Plainfield Township - 1,852 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2018

Regional 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 maintenance1

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
20 March 2018Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresMidewin National Tall Grass PrairieDRUMMOND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Will County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lockport Pit/Yard 15Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Plainfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plainfield Plant & MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Avery No. 2 Pit & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Gross & Mc Cowan Lumber Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Rockdale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Will County

Storms near this place

20 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCrystal Lawns$800,000Hundreds 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 2025Heavy RainCrystal 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 2025FloodCrystal Lawns-A few reports of street flooding were received from the Crystal Lawns, Crest Hill and Lockport areas.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCrystal 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 2025Thunderstorm WindCrystal Lawns-Several tree limbs 6 inches in diameter were blown down along Silver Rock Drive.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCrystal Lawns-Tree damage was reported near Gaylord Road and Frontier Lane.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindCrystal Lawns-Power lines were blown down on Theodore St and Cedarwood Dr. Wind magnitude and time were estimated based on radar.
July 2023Heavy RainCrystal Lawns-A Cocorahs observer recorded 2.54 inches of rain between approximately 7:30 AM and 9:40 AM CST.
August 2021Heavy RainCrystal Lawns-Rainfall of 2.11 inches was measured in 1 hour.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCrystal 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 2017FloodCrystal Lawns-Standing water 7 to 8 inches deep was reported curb to curb on Infantry Drive.
February 2017HailCrystal Lawns-Quarter size hail was reported near Larkin Avenue and Black Road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCrystal Lawns-Extensive tree damage was reported between Black Road and Glenwood Avenue.
March 2007HailCrystal Lawns-Quarter size hail reported at Gaylord and Renwick.
October 2006HailCrystal Lawns-Nickel to quarter size hail reported at Route 59 and Theodore.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindCrystal Lawns-Three to four inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindCrystal Lawns-A twelve inch diameter tree was blown down blocking State Street in Joliet.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindCrystal Lawns-Large tree limbs blown down near Glenwood and Midland Avenue.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindCrystal Lawns-no account filed
October 2006HailCrystal Lawns-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
Erin0.2 miles23
Picardy0.4 miles23
Sunnyland0.7 miles23
Crest Estates0.9 miles23
Coynes0.9 miles23
Grand Prairie0.9 miles23
Wexford0.9 miles23
Heritage Lake Estates1.0 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 Crystal LawnsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q575864The 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.