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Harvey, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Thornton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60426. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle. 20,324 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Harvey within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Harvey fell from 25,282 to 20,324 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
201025,282
202020,324-4,958 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Harvey in 2005, 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
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook 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 Harvey: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Limestone, General. 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
Thorton Plant LimeLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Yard No. 22 Clay PitClayPast Producer
Yard R Clay PitClayProducer
Brownell Improvement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Markham City Dept. of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thornton Underground Mine No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thorton Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harvey in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHarvey-A tree at least one foot in diameter was snapped at its base in Harvey.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHarvey-Tree limbs to around 3 inches in diameter were blown down.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHarvey-Multiple large tree branches, 6 to 8 inches in diameter, were blown down south of 155th Street between Wood Street and Halstead Ave.
June 2011HailHarvey-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHarvey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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
Phoenix0.6 miles25
West Harvey1.1 miles25
North Harvey1.2 miles25
Dixmoor1.7 miles25
South Harvey2.1 miles25
South Holland2.2 miles27
Posen2.4 miles25
University Park2.4 miles25

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 HarveyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q577973The 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 409903. 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.