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Kaneville, Illinois

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kaneville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60119. The Survey maps it on the Big Rock quadrangle. 452 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Kaneville within Kane County

Population over time

2 figures

Kaneville fell from 484 to 452 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
2010484
2020452-32 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

921 words on this township

History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908 names this settlement in its chapter on Kaneville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The land in Kaneville being nearly all prairie land was the last taken up by settlers, who, being accustomed to the forest land of the East, did not know and for many years did not discover the value of prairie land. They would take up wood land, and after making a clearing would plow in among the stumps sufficiently to cover up the seed that they scattered over the ground. It was many years before they realized the value of the prairie soil and began its regular cultivation.

Passage source: History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908.

The village of Kaneville was laid out and platted by Thaddeus Hoyt in 1861. As early as 1852 William Hall built a house and opened it as a hotel. This was the only public house until 1869, when B. and A. Cary built a hotel. In 1855 the Baptists built a church, and the Methodist Episcopal Church organization moved from Blackberry to Kaneville and built a church, which was replaced in 1875 '\v the present building. In 1857 the old school house was torn down and a new building erected. The first principal of the new school was N. F. Nichols, afterward a lawyer in Aurora. The first store building was erected in 1852 by Mr. Goodwin, who sold out to Hathorn. In 1874 Frank Sperry started in business. In 1888 the township contained eight school houses, all frame buildings ; the most expensive one being in district No. 8, which was erected in 1872 at a cost of $1,000.

Passage source: History of Kane County, Ill., published 1908.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Kaneville Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Kaneville: 7 past producers, 2 producers, 2 plants. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elburn Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Elburn PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Feltes Plant No. 7 & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kane County Hwy. Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kane Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kaneville Plant & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Kuglee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Long PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nichols PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this place

19 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kaneville in 19 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 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
May 2014HailKaneville$50,000Hail 1.50 inches to 2.00 inches was reported across portions of Sugar Grove. There were reports of broken house windows.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindKaneville-A semitruck was overturned on I-88 westbound near Dauberman Rd causing westbound lanes to be shut down.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindKaneville-Power lines and possibly some power poles were downed along Dauberman Rd south of Kaneville.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindKaneville-Two large tree limbs snapped off of a tree in Kaneville near Lovell St.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindKaneville-A tree roughly 3 to 4 ft in diameter and 20 to 30 ft long was downed across the road near Willow Creek.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindKaneville-Trees and power lines were reported down along IL-47 between US-88 and Main St.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindKaneville-Power lines were reported down near 498 Lasher Rd.
April 2023HailKaneville-Golf ball size hail was reported near Main Street and Harter Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKaneville-A photo shared on social media showed a large tree limb that was blown down onto the hood of a car which caused damage near Route 47 and Green Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindKaneville-Several trees were blown down between Kaneville and North Aurora.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindKaneville-An 8 inch diameter tree was snapped near Route 47 and Nottingham Drive.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindKaneville-Multiple utility poles were blown down, along with power lines blown down. Small tree limbs were broken.
May 2019HailKaneville-A train spotter measured hail 2.25 inches in diameter with a lot of golf ball size hail.
May 2012HailKaneville-Penny size hail fell near Harter Road and Lasher Road.
April 2010HailKaneville-Golf ball size hail was reported near Interstate 88 and Route 47.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindKaneville-A tree was blown down near Seavey and Lorang Roads.
May 2019HailKaneville-no account filed
September 2019HailKaneville-no account filed
April 2017HailKaneville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kane 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
Blackberry Acres2.0 miles13
Willow Creek2.9 miles13
Nottingham Woods3.0 miles13
Kaneland Estates3.4 miles9
Timbercrest3.5 miles13
Pine View3.6 miles9
Windenoak3.6 miles13
Blackberry Woods3.6 miles13

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 KanevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6362086The 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 411298. 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.