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Elmhurst, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60126. The Survey maps it on the Elmhurst quadrangle. 45,786 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Elmhurst within DuPage County

On record in Elmhurst

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Elmhurst grew from 44,121 to 45,786 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
201044,121
202045,786+1,665 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

2,155 words on this township

History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on York Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on York Township - 2,155 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Elmhurst in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DuPage 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 Elmhurst: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Village of Lombard PitStonePast Producer
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bellwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Portable Plant #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Underground No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northlake City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmhurst in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 5 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindElmhurst3 hurt, $100,000Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. A woman was seriously injured when a tree fell on her car on Prairie Avenue. Another tree fell on car, injuring the driver at York Street and St. Charles Road. A tree was blown down onto a city vehicle on Fairview, where the driver was injured. Two other people were injured when they entered their flooded basements.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindElmhurst1 hurtOne hundred trees were blown down or damaged. A man was injured by a falling tree limb.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindElmhurst$25,000Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Elmhurst. Several trees were blown down onto cars causing damage, including a large tree that fell onto a car on Poplar Avenue.
July 2025Flash FloodElmhurst$2,000Flooding was reported in numerous areas in Elmhurst. Multiple roads were flooded near North Avenue and Interstate 294. Two to three feet of water was reported on streets near the intersection of North Avenue and North York Street. An underpass on Robert Palmer Drive was flooded near 1st Street. Water entered a nearby apartment building and parking garage. Basement flooding was also reported. A personal weather station reported 2.28 inches of rain in one hour on the southeast side of Elmhurst and another personal weather station reported 2.10 inches of rain in one hour on the northeast side of Elmhurst.
July 2010LightningElmhurst$2,000Lightning struck a utility pole on Church Street. Wires and a ceramic insulator fell off the pole and onto a car, smashing both the front and back windows.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindElmhurst$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2025FloodElmhurst-Standing water 12 to 18 inches deep was reported on multiple side streets and intersections in and around the South Sunnyside Avenue and Olive Street area.
July 2024Flash FloodElmhurst-Several feet of water was reported covering North Avenue near Interstate 290.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Several tree limbs up to 6 inches in diameter were snapped off of trees.
May 2022FloodElmhurst-York Street was closed due to flooding near 3rd Street. North Avenue was closed due to flooding between York Street and Interstate 290. The Interstate 290 interchange ramp was closed due to flooding at North Avenue.
July 2022FloodElmhurst-An underpass was flooded and impassible in Elmhurst. Measured rainfall of 2.47 inches was reported in one hour between 4:15 am and 5:15 am CST.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Half of a tree was blown down onto a road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-A photo shared on social media showed large tree limbs blown down west of Elmhurst University.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2021FloodElmhurst-Ramp flooding was reported at the interchange of Interstate 290 and North Avenue.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Elmhurst.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-A one foot diameter tree was blown down.
May 2018FloodElmhurst-A flooded underpass in downtown Elmhurst was blocked off by police.
June 2018FloodElmhurst-Two flood prone viaducts were closed due to flooding.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Large trees were blown down. Wind gusts were estimated to 80 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-Winds were estimated to 65 mph and blew down trees on portions of York Street and Prospect Avenue.
October 2006HailElmhurst-Nickel size hail was reported at Grand and York Avenue.
July 2003HailElmhurst-Reported at Interstate 290 and Route 83.
May 2025HailElmhurst-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-no account filed
August 2003HailElmhurst-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindElmhurst-no account filed
May 1994HailElmhurst-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
South Elmhurst1.2 miles23
Yorkfield2.5 miles23
Churchville2.6 miles23
South Addison2.6 miles23
Villa Park2.7 miles23
Mammoth Springs3.1 miles23
Addison3.4 miles23
Oakbrook Terrace3.6 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 ElmhurstAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q579542The 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 421782. 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.