Lake Holiday, Illinois
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Northville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60548. The Survey maps it on the Sheridan quadrangle. 5,687 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 650 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLake Holiday grew from 4,761 to 5,687 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,761 | |
| 2020 | 5,687 | +926 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1948 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Sandwich quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Sheridan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,330 words on this townshipHistory of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Northville Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Northville Township - 1,330 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lake Holiday: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Schiedecker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sheridan-Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| West Schiedecker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Holiday in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 5 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Flash Flood | Lake Holiday | 1 killed, $75,000,000 | County emergency managers estimated that over 500 buildings were damaged by flooding across La Salle County. In Marseilles, 1500 people were evacuated due to a compromised levee which led to dozens of homes and facilities being flooded along the river front. Several barges broke loose from a tugboat on the Illinois River and rammed into the levee. Five of the eight locks were damaged such that they could not close completely. Flooding occurred in Utica east of Route 178 resulting in evacuations on the I&M Canal. Creeks were reported out of their banks in Mendota. A woman was killed on Route 351 as it passes over the Illinois River near Peru. She drove around barricades and became stranded in knee-deep water. Her body was found about two weeks later approximately 70 yards downstream. |
| September 2008 | Flood | Lake Holiday | 5 hurt, $15,000 | Widespread flooding across parts of La Salle County slowly receded through September 17th. Five teenagers were injured on the evening of September 14th when the driver of the vehicle they were in, lost control on a water covered road. The car entered a ditch and flipped over. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Lake Holiday | - | Multiple reports of hail ranging in size from 1 inch in diameter to the size of golf balls came out of Lake Holiday and the south side of Somonauk. Time estimated using radar. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Holiday | - | A flag pole snapped and tree damage was observed near Lake Holiday in Somonauk. A video shared also shows an apparent gustnado over Lake Holiday. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Holiday | - | A measured wind gust to 72 mph was reported. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Holiday | - | Tree damage was reported in several areas from Lake Holiday to Sandwich. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Lake Holiday | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Lake Holiday | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Lake Holiday | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northville | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Sheridan | 5.7 miles | 10 | |
| Catharine | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Leland | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Baker | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Serena | 9.3 miles | 16 | |
| Norway | 10.2 miles | 16 | |
| Munson (historical) | 11.3 miles | 9 |
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 Lake Holiday | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6476191 | The 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 2629891. 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.





