BlockDixmoor, Illinois
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Thornton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60426. It lies near Kickapoo Meadows. The Survey maps it on the Blue Island quadrangle. 2,973 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresDixmoor fell from 3,644 to 2,973 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 | 3,644 | |
| 2020 | 2,973 | -671 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 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 Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Blue Island quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dixmoor: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Markham City Dept. of Public Works | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Yard No. 22 Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Yard R Clay Pit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixmoor in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dixmoor | - | A corridor of significant straight line wind damage occurred from Harvey east to Calumet City. Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped along this corridor. Some roofs were damaged by falling trees; other roofs suffered minor shingle damage from the strong winds. Some of the worst damage was in Harvey in an area between Sibley Boulevard to the north and 159th Street to the south. Trees were snapped and uprooted and extensive damage occurred to utility poles and power lines, resulting in some portions of the power grid needing to be completely rebuilt. Almost everyone in Harvey lost power. An estimated 300 to 350 trees were blown down in Harvey. Almost every road in Harvey was blocked by some amount of tree damage. Significant tree damage was reported in forest preserve areas including in the Shabonna Woods Forest Preserve. Damage was consistent with wind speeds up to 90 mph.||One day later, on August 11th, just after noon, a 59 year old man was walking in the 15000 block of Merrill Avenue in unincorporated Thornton Township near Calumet City. He stepped on a downed power line that was live and collapsed in a grassy area where he died. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Dixmoor | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Harvey | 0.6 miles | 25 | |
| Posen | 1.1 miles | 25 | |
| North Harvey | 1.3 miles | 25 | |
| Harvey | 1.7 miles | 25 | |
| Phoenix | 2.0 miles | 25 | |
| Blue Island | 2.0 miles | 25 | |
| Calumet Park | 2.1 miles | 25 | |
| Robbins | 2.4 miles | 25 |
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 Dixmoor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2124225 | 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 407249. 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.