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Inverness, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Palatine Township. The Survey maps it on the Palatine quadrangle. 7,616 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Inverness within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Inverness grew from 7,399 to 7,616 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
20107,399
20207,616+217 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the county-history sources

10,882 words on this township

History of Cook County, Illinois. From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Palatine Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Palatine Township - 10,882 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Inverness: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dundee North Road Mat'Ls CorpSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Palatine City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

14 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inverness in 14 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014LightningInverness$50,000A home on the 1900 block of Durham Drive caught fire after lightning blew a small hole in the roof.
May 2011LightningInverness$15,000A house was struck by lightning in the 200 block of South Clyde Avenue in Palatine. Most of the damage to the house was confined to the exterior.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindInverness-Siding and fascia damage was found along Palatine Rd along with trees uprooted and branches down.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindInverness-A Crabtree Nature Center employee reported tree damage as he drove through the Deer Grove Forest Preserve in Palatine.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindInverness-Roof and shingle damage and uprooted trees were reported in the Barrington Woods subdivision in Palatine.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindInverness-Shingle damage was found along Pheasant Trail near Plymouth Dr.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindInverness-A tree was found uprooted and leaning on a house south of South Ridge Lake in Inverness.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindInverness-Numerous branches were found strewn about the Inverness Golf Club with several trees leaning with their roots exposed.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindInverness-A tree was found leaning on a house along N Roselle Rd just northeast of the Inverness Golf Club.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindInverness-A private weather station, KILPALAT43, reported a 62 mph gust near Hoffman Estates.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindInverness-A news report showed a collapsed gazebo and multiple felled fence panels just west of Palatine Hills Golf Course.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindInverness-Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindInverness-Winds were estimated to 65 mph.
April 2015HailInverness-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
Lake Park Estates2.0 miles21
Deer Lake2.2 miles21
South Barrington2.3 miles22
Howe Terrace2.3 miles21
Baldwin2.4 miles21
Heatherlea3.0 miles21
Pepper Tree3.1 miles21
Barrington Woods3.2 miles21

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 InvernessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2412154The 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 410908. 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.

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.