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Highland Park, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Moraine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60035. The Survey maps it on the Highland Park quadrangle. 30,176 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,650 feet above sea level.

Highland Park within Lake County

On record in Highland Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 34 shown

Every listing in Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Highland Park grew from 29,763 to 30,176 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
201029,763
202030,176+413 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Highland Park in 2020, burning about 23 acres 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
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 December 2020Debris and open burning23 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-2498
4 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources2020-2239

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Highland Park: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Deerfield PitStonePast Producer
Glencoe City Engr. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public WorkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highland Park in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2018LightningHighland Park2 hurtTwo women were returning to their car after a concert and sought shelter under a tree as a storm moved through the area. Lightning struck the tree and both women sustained cuts, bruises and burns.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHighland Park-A private weather station recorded a 64 mph gust in Highland Park.
April 2023HailHighland Park-A photo showed hail up to the size of golf balls.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindHighland Park-A photo was shared on social media of a tree blown down near Highland Park.
July 2008FloodHighland Park-Many streets were flooded with six inches of standing water between Route 41 and Route 43 in Highland Park. Five inches of standing water was reported near Deerfield and Route 83.
August 2024HailHighland Park-no account filed
April 2023HailHighland Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Briergate0.9 miles22
Briergate Station1.0 miles22
Highwood1.3 miles22
Blodgett1.4 miles22
Ravinia1.4 miles22
Woodridge2.0 miles22
Deerfield2.5 miles22
Highmoor2.5 miles22

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 Highland ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576671The 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 410226. 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.