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Hanover Park, Illinois

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It lies in ZIP code area 60133. The Survey maps it on the West Chicago quadrangle.

Hanover Park within DuPage County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hanover Park in 2014, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
10 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2014-357

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hanover Park: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Hoffman Estates City Eng.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bartlett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bartlett Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
East Riverdale Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Mallard Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Meachum PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Route 20 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover Park in 11 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHanover Park-Numerous tree branches were down immediately downstream of the track of the EF-1 tornado that went through the east side of Bartlett.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHanover Park-Numerous tree limbs and branches were down on either side of IL-19 in Hanover Park.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHanover Park-Three panel siding was ripped off of a townhouse on Mansfield Ct. Multiple tree limbs were also down in the same neighborhood.
March 2025Tornado (EF0)Hanover Park-A brief tornado began near Newport Boulevard and Longford Road in Hanover Park. The tornado moved rapidly northeastward and dissipated a short time later near Lake Street and Ontarioville Road. Most damage was to trees and fences along the track. The most significant damage was near Andover Drive and Andover Court, where at least one tree was uprooted with peak winds estimated near 75 mph.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHanover Park-A large evergreen tree was uprooted and fell onto a house in the Greenbrook neighborhood of Bartlett.
July 2025Heavy RainHanover Park-A personal weather station reported 2.30 inches of rain in one hour.
April 2010HailHanover Park-Hail was reported near Route 20 and Naperville Road.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindHanover Park-Large tree limbs blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHanover Park-A large tree was blown down on a garage with minor damage to the roof.
April 2010HailHanover Park-no account filed
August 2003HailHanover Park-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
Ontarioville0.9 miles20
Keeneyville2.6 miles19
Schick3.4 miles20
Roselle3.6 miles19
Wayne Center4.2 miles20
Cloverdale4.3 miles19
Bloomingdale4.5 miles19
Munger4.8 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 421836. 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.