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.
Population over time
2 figuresFrankfort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17,782 | |
| 2020 | 20,296 | +2,514 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1930 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Peotone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
21 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | $45,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | $5,000 | A four inch diameter tree was snapped near St Francis Road & Harlem Avenue. A metal fence was also blown down in Frankfort. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | $5,000 | Two utility poles were blown over on 80th Avenue. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | A 3 inch diameter tree limb was blown down. |
| June 2025 | Heavy Rain | Frankfort | - | 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 2024 | Heavy Rain | Frankfort | - | 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | A portion of roofing was torn off of the Frankfort Fire District 73 training center. Time was estimated using radar. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Frankfort. Some utility poles were damaged. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Frankfort | - | Nickel size hail was reported near Route 30 and Pfeiffer Road. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Frankfort | - | Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported with half dollar size hail reported between Route 30 and Saint Francis Road. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Frankfort | - | Walnut size hail was reported along Route 45 in Green Garden Township. |
| April 2006 | Lightning | Frankfort | - | Two houses were struck by lightning in Frankfort. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Trees were blown down at Route 30 and Wolf Road. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Frankfort | - | Reported at the intersection of Sky Drive and Benton Road. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Winds damaged trees, fences, storage barns. There was minor roof and gutter damage to homes. |
| April 1999 | Flood | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Frankfort | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Estates | 2.3 miles | 24 | |
| Arbury Hills | 2.7 miles | 24 | |
| Frankfort Square | 2.9 miles | 24 | |
| Mokena | 3.0 miles | 23 | |
| Lincolnwood Hills | 3.6 miles | 23 | |
| Gilletts | 4.9 miles | 23 | |
| Spencer | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Marley | 5.5 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 Frankfort | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2384761 | 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 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.







