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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.

Lake Holiday within LaSalle County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake 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.

YearPeople Change
20104,761
20205,687+926 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

1,330 words on this township

History 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 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
East Schiedecker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sheridan-Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West Schiedecker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2013Flash FloodLake Holiday1 killed, $75,000,000County 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 2008FloodLake Holiday5 hurt, $15,000Widespread 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 2026HailLake 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 2024Thunderstorm WindLake 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 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Holiday-A measured wind gust to 72 mph was reported.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Holiday-Tree damage was reported in several areas from Lake Holiday to Sandwich.
June 2017HailLake Holiday-no account filed
August 2011HailLake Holiday-no account filed
October 2006HailLake Holiday-no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaSalle 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
Northville3.8 miles10
Sheridan5.7 miles10
Catharine6.7 miles10
Leland6.8 miles9
Baker8.4 miles9
Serena9.3 miles16
Norway10.2 miles16
Munson (historical)11.3 miles9

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 HolidayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6476191The 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.