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Hinsdale, Illinois

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Downers Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60521. The Survey maps it on the Hinsdale quadrangle. 17,395 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Hinsdale within DuPage County

On record in Hinsdale

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 9 records

Population over time

2 figures

Hinsdale grew from 16,816 to 17,395 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
201016,816
202017,395+579 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 23 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.

In the county-history sources

3,959 words on this township

History 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 Downers Grove Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Downers Grove Township - 3,959 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hinsdale 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
Natural1

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
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hinsdale: 7 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Downers Grove City PitStonePast Producer
Kugler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Silbrico Expanded Perilite PlantPerliteProducer
Dolese and Shepard Crushed StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Federal Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Superior Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wester Springs City Eng.-Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

12 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinsdale in 12 storm reports between 2004 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindHinsdale$50,000At least 50 trees were blown down with damage to hundreds of other trees. Tree limbs fell onto houses and cars. A transmission line that supplies electricity to the southern half of the city was also blown down, in addition to numerous other power lines.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHinsdale-Photos showed large tree limbs snapped off of trees.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHinsdale-Photo shared via social media showed a large tree which had been uprooted in Hinsdale. Time was estimated using radar.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHinsdale-A photo shared on social media showed a large portion of roofing material peeled back on a house.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHinsdale-A gust to 61 mph was measured at Hinsdale Middle School.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHinsdale-Thirty six trees were blown down or damaged.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHinsdale-Numerous medium sized tree limbs were blown down. A couple of small trees were uprooted. One large tree was split down the middle.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindHinsdale-Five trees were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHinsdale-Several large trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. A few cars received minor damage from falling tree limbs.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHinsdale-Large tree limbs were down.
March 2026HailHinsdale-no account filed
April 2004HailHinsdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
Clarendon Hills1.0 miles23
Fullersburg1.5 miles23
Westmont2.1 miles23
Willowbrook2.1 miles23
Oak Brook2.2 miles23
Oakbrook Terrace3.7 miles23
Burr Ridge3.7 miles26
Lace3.7 miles23

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 HinsdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q939529The 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 421852. 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.