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La Grange Park, Illinois

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Proviso Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60526. It stands on Addison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berwyn quadrangle.

La Grange Park within Cook County

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 Park 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 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of La Grange Park: 11 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
A C O'Laughlin Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
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
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverside Lime and Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Summit Quarry Consumers CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Superior Stone Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names La Grange Park in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 heavy rain, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLa Grange Park$5,000,000no account filed
July 2010LightningLa Grange Park$30,000Lightning apparently struck a pole at a bank on Burlington Avenue. This pole then fell onto a chimney and then the chimney fell over, damaging a roof. Several pieces of electronic equipment were no longer working after the strike, including credit card readers.
February 2024HailLa Grange Park-A report of 1 hail was relayed via mPING.
July 2023Heavy RainLa Grange Park-A private weather station, KILBROOK16, recorded 4.99 inches of storm total rainfall.
July 2023Heavy RainLa Grange Park-A personal weather station picked up 4.35 inches of rain from the start of the day through roughly 11AM CST. The owner of the weather station confirmed the observation with a standard rain gauge.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLa Grange Park-Photos shared on social media showed multiple trees, tree limbs and power lines blown down, north of 31st Street between La Grange Road and Maple Avenue.
July 2019Heavy RainLa Grange Park-Rainfall of 3.38 inches was measured in one hour near downtown Western Springs.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLa Grange Park-A large tree was blown down blocking part of Ashland Road.
March 2026HailLa Grange Park-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindLa Grange Park-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
Brookfield0.9 miles24
Westchester1.5 miles23
East Grossdale1.5 miles24
Hines1.8 miles24
Broadview2.1 miles24
Riverside2.1 miles24
La Grange2.1 miles24
North Riverside2.1 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 411642. 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.