Lake Villa, Illinois
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Lake Villa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60046. It lies near Cedar Island. The Survey maps it on the Antioch quadrangle. 8,741 people lived here at the 2020 count.
On record in Lake Villa
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 1 record
Hall, David, Houselisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresLake Villa grew from 8,741 to 8,741 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 | 8,741 | |
| 2020 | 8,741 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1920 USGS Grays Lake quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1923 USGS Grays Lake quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Grayslake quadrangle1:62500
- 1963 USGS Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Antioch quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
17 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Lake Villa between 2008 and 2019, burning about 21 acres 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | MARTIN |
| 7 July 2012 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-01622 |
| 4 July 2012 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-01582 |
| 21 July 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 16-1966 |
| 16 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | BLACKHAWK |
| 18 May 2013 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | OVERLOOK |
| 8 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 18-0975 |
| 7 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | GRANT HS DIST |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Villa in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Villa | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Lightning | Lake Villa | $10,000 | Lightning struck a home on Yew Tree Court blowing a hole through the roof, knocking siding off of the house and blew out some electrical circuits but no fire was reported. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Lake Villa | - | Multiple reports of nickel to quarter size hail were received from Lake Villa. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Villa | - | Power lines were blown down on Park Avenue. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Lake Villa | - | Large hail was report at several locations including 1.75 inch diameter hail at Deep Lake Road just south of Grass Lake Road and 2.25 inch diameter hail at Fairfield and Petite Lake Road. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Lake Villa | - | Penny size hail fell near Route 132 and Hawthorne Drive. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Villa | - | Tree limbs were blocking the road near the intersection of Fairfield Road and Hawthorne Drive. |
| May 2006 | Flood | Lake Villa | - | Four to six inches of water on IL 132, just east of IL 83. |
| October 2006 | Heavy Rain | Lake Villa | - | Storm total rainfall of 4.00 inches was measured. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Villa | - | Scattered power outages were reported countywide, which also resulted in some school closures. A tree fell on a vehicle in the area of Route 83 and Route 137. No injuries were reported. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Lake Villa | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Lake Villa | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Villa | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Miltmore | 1.6 miles | 20 | |
| Venetian Village | 1.7 miles | 20 | |
| Loon Lake | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Monaville | 2.3 miles | 20 | |
| Lindenhurst | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Rollins | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| Round Lake Heights | 3.0 miles | 20 | |
| Fox Lake Hills | 3.1 miles | 20 |
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 Villa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1989579 | 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 411741. 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.
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.









