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Homewood, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Thornton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60430. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle. 19,463 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Homewood within Cook County

On record in Homewood

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Homewood grew from 19,323 to 19,463 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
201019,323
202019,463+140 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Homewood 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 ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Homewood: 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Thorton Plant LimeLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Brownell Improvement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Chicago Hghts City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Markham City Dept. of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thornton Underground Mine No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thorton Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

17 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homewood in 17 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 13 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025Thunderstorm WindHomewood-A photo showed a tree limb 6 to 8 inches in diameter and 15 to 20 feet long blown down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Photos shared via social media show large tree limbs downed in Homewood. Time was estimated using radar.
June 2021Flash FloodHomewood-Photos shared on social media showed George Arquilla Park was flooded.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Two large trees approximately 20 inches in diameter were blown down.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Numerous tree limbs 3 to 4 inches in diameter were blown down.
February 2017Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHomewood-A large healthy tree limb was blown down.
June 2012HailHomewood-Quarter size hail fell at 183rd Street and Highland Avenue.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. Many small tree limbs were blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Large trees and large tree limbs were blown down with estimated wind gusts to 70 mph.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindHomewood-A spotter estimated a wind gust to 70 mph.
October 2005Thunderstorm WindHomewood-A tree fell on a power line and it snapped.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Large tree limbs were blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindHomewood-Two inch diameter tree limbs were down.
May 2006HailHomewood-no account filed
April 2004HailHomewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cook 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
Flossmoor1.4 miles25
East Hazel Crest1.5 miles25
South Harvey1.7 miles25
Hazel Crest1.8 miles25
Holbrook2.0 miles25
Sunny Crest2.1 miles25
Graymoor2.3 miles25
University Park2.6 miles25

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 HomewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2134249The 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 410465. 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.