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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.

Glendale Heights within DuPage County

Population over time

2 figures

Glendale 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.

YearPeople Change
201034,208
202033,176-1,032 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

2,683 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 Bloomingdale Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Bloomingdale Township - 2,683 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ajax PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Curtis S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dupage City Hwy. Dept. PitStonePast Producer
Glen Ellyn City PitStonePast Producer
Village of Lombard PitStonePast Producer
Wheaton City PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindGlendale Heights$1,500,000Part 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 2017Thunderstorm WindGlendale Heights$2,000Several power lines and a few small trees were blown down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGlendale 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 2025Thunderstorm WindGlendale Heights-Mulitple reports of trees and tree limbs blown down were received from the west side of Addison.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindGlendale Heights-Multiple power lines were downed in Glendale Heights.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindGlendale Heights-A six inch diameter tree limb was blown down onto a fence near North Avenue and Glen Ellyn Road.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindGlendale Heights-Several tree limbs 3 inches in diameter were blown down.
April 1996HailGlendale Heights-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
Shorewood0.9 miles19
Saddlewood1.3 miles19
North Glen Ellyn1.3 miles19
Swift1.7 miles19
Gretna1.8 miles19
Glen Ellyn2.3 miles19
Glen Oak2.6 miles19
Cloverdale3.3 miles19

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 HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q912145The 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.