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La Grange, Illinois

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Lyons Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60525. The Survey maps it on the Berwyn quadrangle. 16,321 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

La Grange within Cook County

On record in La Grange

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

La Grange grew from 15,550 to 16,321 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
201015,550
202016,321+771 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of La Grange 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
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
20 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

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of La Grange: 8 past producers, 2 plants, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. 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
Silbrico Expanded Perilite PlantPerliteProducer
Bellwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dolese and Shepard Crushed StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Federal Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Mc Cook Yard No. 387 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Riverside Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Summit Quarry Consumers CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Superior Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
West Chester City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

13 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Grange in 13 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLa Grange$150,000The west side of La Grange was hit the hardest with numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines blown down. Some streets were completely blocked due to the fallen trees. Six homes and one garage were damaged by the falling trees and limbs and at least one vehicle was damaged.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLa Grange$3,000Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in LaGrange.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindLa Grange$3,000Tree limbs and power lines were blown down across parts of LaGrange.
March 2026HailLa Grange-A few 1 to 2 inch hail reports came out of LaGrange and Brookfield.
August 2025Flash FloodLa Grange-Several inches of water were covering roadways in the vicinity of LaGrange Rd and 55th St in Countryside.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-Multiple large tree limbs were blown down including a one foot diameter tree limb that was blown down onto power lines.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-Video showed a 1 to 2 foot diameter tree snapped several feet above ground, which fell onto a parked car near the intersection of Elm Avenue and LaGrange Road.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-Tree limbs were blown down into a roadway.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-Trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in the north and northeast portions of La Grange.
March 2024HailLa Grange-no account filed
June 2010HailLa Grange-no account filed
March 2004HailLa Grange-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindLa Grange-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
McCook1.4 miles24
Brookfield1.6 miles24
Countryside1.6 miles23
Western Springs1.7 miles23
La Grange Park2.1 miles24
East Grossdale2.3 miles24
Gary2.5 miles24
Hodgkins2.6 miles24

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 La GrangeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q968621The 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 411638. 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.