BlockHazel Crest, Illinois
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bremen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60429. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle. 13,382 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresHazel Crest fell from 14,100 to 13,382 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 | 14,100 | |
| 2020 | 13,382 | -718 (-5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 25 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.
- 1892 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1893 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Calumet quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hazel Crest 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 ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Hazel Crest: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorton Plant Lime | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Brownell Improvement Co Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Markham City Dept. of Public Works | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Thornton Underground Mine No. 2 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Thorton Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazel Crest in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Flash Flood | East Hazel Crest | $20,000 | Approximately three and a half feet of standing water was reported at 175th Street and Ashland Avenue. Cars became stranded in the water. An observer in Palos Park measured 1.82 inches of rain in 35 minutes. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Hazel Crest | $15,000 | Hundreds of tree limbs were blown down across Homewood. Most of the damage occurred on the northeast side of Homewood, particularly along Ridge Road between Riegel Road and Halsted Street. Two Japanese elm trees were blown down onto a fence, just missing a house. Another tree was blown down on two vehicles. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazel Crest | - | Large tree over one foot in diameter downed. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | East Hazel Crest | - | Nearly continuous winds estimated to 70 mph were reported. A 6 inch tree limb was blown down onto a deck. Numerous tree limbs were blown down across Homewood. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hazel Crest | - | A gust to 63 mph was measured. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Hazel Crest | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Hazel Crest | - | no account filed |
| April 1994 | Hail | Hazel Crest | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country Club Hills | 1.4 miles | 25 | |
| University Park | 1.5 miles | 25 | |
| Markham | 1.5 miles | 25 | |
| South Harvey | 1.8 miles | 25 | |
| Homewood | 1.8 miles | 25 | |
| Flossmoor Highlands | 2.0 miles | 25 | |
| Flossmoor | 2.1 miles | 25 | |
| Sunny Crest | 2.5 miles | 25 |
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 Hazel Crest | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2599354 | 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 409971. 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.