Lincolnshire, Illinois
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60069. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheeling quadrangle. 7,940 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLincolnshire grew from 7,275 to 7,940 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 | 7,275 | |
| 2020 | 7,940 | +665 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 23 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.
- 1900 USGS Highwood quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1928 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Wheeling quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,027 words on this townshipThe Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Vernon Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Vernon Township - 1,027 words.
Fires near this place
3 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lincolnshire between 2012 and 2020, burning about 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2012 | Fireworks | 5.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-2395-27 |
| 9 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 19-971 |
| 4 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 2020-2239 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Lincolnshire: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Aptakisic Sand Corp. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cow Hey Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincolnshire in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnshire | $30,000 | A few roofs were blown off of buildings in the Lincolnshire-Riverwoods district. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Lincolnshire | - | Londonderry Lane was flooded and closed. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Lincolnshire | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lincolnshire | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Half Day | 1.5 miles | 23 | |
| Riverwoods | 1.7 miles | 23 | |
| Aptakisic | 2.1 miles | 23 | |
| Bannockburn | 2.2 miles | 22 | |
| Horatio Gardens | 2.5 miles | 23 | |
| Prairie View | 2.6 miles | 23 | |
| Everett | 2.8 miles | 22 | |
| West Lake Forest | 2.9 miles | 22 |
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 Lincolnshire | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2671290 | 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 422260. 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.








