Glendale Heights, Illinois
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bloomingdale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60137. The Survey maps it on the Lombard quadrangle. 33,176 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresGlendale Heights fell from 34,208 to 33,176 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 | 34,208 | |
| 2020 | 33,176 | -1,032 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1908 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Lombard quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,683 words on this townshipHistory 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 Bloomingdale Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Bloomingdale Township - 2,683 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Glendale Heights: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajax Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Curtis S&G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dupage City Hwy. Dept. Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Glen Ellyn City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Village of Lombard Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Wheaton City Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale Heights in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendale Heights | $1,500,000 | Part of the roof of a car dealership was torn off. Thirty cars were damaged. The dealership was at North Avenue and Route 53. There was no other damage in the area. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendale Heights | $2,000 | Several power lines and a few small trees were blown down. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendale Heights | - | Two areas of concentrated tree damage occurred surrounding North Avenue in Glendale Heights and Glen Ellyn. Photos depicted numerous hardwood and softwood trees snapped, including several that were at least one foot in diameter. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendale Heights | - | Mulitple reports of trees and tree limbs blown down were received from the west side of Addison. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendale Heights | - | Multiple power lines were downed in Glendale Heights. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendale Heights | - | A six inch diameter tree limb was blown down onto a fence near North Avenue and Glen Ellyn Road. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendale Heights | - | Several tree limbs 3 inches in diameter were blown down. |
| April 1996 | Hail | Glendale Heights | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shorewood | 0.9 miles | 19 | |
| Saddlewood | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| North Glen Ellyn | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| Swift | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Gretna | 1.8 miles | 19 | |
| Glen Ellyn | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Glen Oak | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Cloverdale | 3.3 miles | 19 |
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 Glendale Heights | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q912145 | 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 421826. 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.









