BlockHickory Hills, Illinois
27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Palos Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60457. The Survey maps it on the Palos Park quadrangle. 14,505 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 689 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHickory Hills grew from 14,049 to 14,505 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 | 14,049 | |
| 2020 | 14,505 | +456 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 27 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.
- 1890 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1894 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500
- 1901 USGS Des Plaines quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1928 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1980 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Palos Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Palos Park 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 Hickory Hills in 2005, burning about 1 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/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 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
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hickory Hills: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolese and Shepard Crushed Stone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Silbrico Expanded Perilite Plant | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Worth Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickory Hills in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Hills | 2 hurt, $1,000,000 | The roof of a junior high school was blown off in Hickory Hills near the intersection of 97th Street and Roberts Road. The roof landed on a service van in a parking lot next to the school. Two occupants in the van were trapped and injured. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. Several homes along 97th Street received damage from falling trees and tree limbs. In Bridgeview, structural damage was noted to a warehouse buildings in an industrial park along 100th place, west of Harlem Avenue. A building of cinder block construction partially collapsed when the north and east walls were blown down. Additional minor damage was noted at Bridgeview Fire Station number 2. Winds were estimated between 80 and 110 mph. |
| July 2025 | Flood | Hickory Hills | - | High standing water was reported covering portions of 95th Street between Harlem Avenue and Central Avenue. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Hills | - | Utility poles were blown down along 95th Street. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Hickory Hills | - | Minor street flooding and filling of retention ponds was reported near 95th Street and 84th Avenue. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Hickory Hills | - | Also, funnel cloud spotted over Moraine Valley Community College. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Hills | - | A thunderstorm produced downburst winds and heavy rain. Large tree limbs were blown down, fences were blown over and streets and basements were flooded. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickory Hills | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justice | 1.5 miles | 27 | |
| Bridgeview | 2.0 miles | 24 | |
| Palos Hills | 2.0 miles | 27 | |
| Mount Forest (historical) | 2.0 miles | 27 | |
| Willow Springs | 2.1 miles | 27 | |
| Burbank | 2.5 miles | 27 | |
| Worth | 2.9 miles | 27 | |
| Bedford Park | 2.9 miles | 24 |
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 Hickory Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q577695 | 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 410171. 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.