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Frankfort, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Frankfort Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60423. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort quadrangle. 20,296 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Frankfort within Will County

Population over time

2 figures

Frankfort grew from 17,782 to 20,296 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
201017,782
202020,296+2,514 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Storms near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 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
January 1996Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$45,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$5,000A four inch diameter tree was snapped near St Francis Road & Harlem Avenue. A metal fence was also blown down in Frankfort.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFrankfort$5,000Two utility poles were blown over on 80th Avenue.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-A 3 inch diameter tree limb was blown down.
June 2025Heavy RainFrankfort-A personal weather station recorded 2.83 of storm total rain through 4 PM LST. 2.06 were recorded in less than one hour, and about 1 was recorded in the span of 10 minutes ending around 3:47 PM LST.
September 2024Heavy RainFrankfort-A private weather station reported a storm total of 3.27 inches of rain with just over 1.50 inches falling in 30 minutes ending 1130 AM CST.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-A portion of roofing was torn off of the Frankfort Fire District 73 training center. Time was estimated using radar.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Frankfort. Some utility poles were damaged.
February 2017HailFrankfort-Nickel size hail was reported near Route 30 and Pfeiffer Road.
February 2017HailFrankfort-Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported with half dollar size hail reported between Route 30 and Saint Francis Road.
April 2006HailFrankfort-Walnut size hail was reported along Route 45 in Green Garden Township.
April 2006LightningFrankfort-Two houses were struck by lightning in Frankfort.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Trees were blown down at Route 30 and Wolf Road.
May 2004HailFrankfort-Reported at the intersection of Sky Drive and Benton Road.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Winds damaged trees, fences, storage barns. There was minor roof and gutter damage to homes.
April 1999FloodFrankfort-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
April 1994HailFrankfort-no account filed
April 1994HailFrankfort-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
Lincoln Estates2.3 miles24
Arbury Hills2.7 miles24
Frankfort Square2.9 miles24
Mokena3.0 miles23
Lincolnwood Hills3.6 miles23
Gilletts4.9 miles23
Spencer4.9 miles16
Marley5.5 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 FrankfortAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2384761The 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 423589. 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.

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.