Highland Hills, Illinois
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60148. The Survey maps it on the Wheaton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1908 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1948 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,155 words on this townshipHistory 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 York Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on York Township - 2,155 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Highland Hills in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 June 2005 | Natural | 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
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Highland Hills: 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kugler Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Downers Grove City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Portable Plant #1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Elmhurst Underground No. 1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Glen Ellyn City Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Village of Lombard Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Hills in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 1 lightning, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Lightning | Highland Hills | $200,000 | Lightning struck a house on South Vista Avenue causing the roof and second floor to catch fire. Three people inside the house escaped without injury. The house was declared uninhabitable. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Highland Hills | - | Penny size hail was reported near the intersection of Interstate 88 and Highland Avenue. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| York Center | 1.0 miles | 23 | |
| Utopia | 1.7 miles | 23 | |
| Flowerfield | 2.0 miles | 21 | |
| Oakbrook Terrace | 2.1 miles | 23 | |
| Lombard | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Downers Grove | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| Glen Oak | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Villa Park | 2.9 miles | 23 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 421845. 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.









