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Lincolnwood, Illinois

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Niles Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60712. The Survey maps it on the Evanston quadrangle. 13,463 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Lincolnwood within Cook County

On record in Lincolnwood

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

Population over time

2 figures

Lincolnwood grew from 12,590 to 13,463 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
201012,590
202013,463+873 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

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 Lincolnwood: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Evanston City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Niles City Dept of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincolnwood in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 8 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLincolnwood$15,000Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down. One tree fell onto a parked car on Keating Avenue.
April 2023HailLincolnwood-Most of the hail was nickel size with the largest hail roughly half dollar size.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLincolnwood-A tree was blown down near Kedzie Avenue and Touhy Avenue.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLincolnwood-A large tree limb was snapped and partially fell onto a car.
August 2020Tornado (EF1)Lincolnwood-A tornado with peak winds of 110 mph touched down in the Lincolnwood neighborhood of Chicago near the intersection of Lunt and Hamlin Avenues. Tree damage occurred along most of the path of the tornado. At least two city blocks were impassable due to fallen trees. Numerous cars were totaled after trees fell on them. Utility poles were leaning along Touhy Avenue, just east of St. Louis Avenue. Significant tree damage including snapped trees, large trees uprooted and trees and tree limbs on vehicles, occurred between California Avenue and Rogers Phillip Park. The most intense damage occurred approximately one mile west of Lake Michigan where widespread tree damage occurred including large trees 1 to 2 feet in diameter snapped and uprooted. Minor roof damage also occurred in this area. The tornado continued east to the Lake Michigan shore where it became a waterspout as it moved east of Fargo Beach Park.
August 2018Heavy RainLincolnwood-Rainfall of 1.76 inches was measured in one hour.
June 2009HailLincolnwood-Penny size hail was reported near Albion and California Roads.
June 2008HailLincolnwood-Penny size hail was reported for ten minutes.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLincolnwood-Three trees were blown down.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindLincolnwood-A tree was split in half on Keystone Avenue by wind. Another tree was blown over and landed on a vehicle.
July 2003HailLincolnwood-Penny size hail was reported along Lincoln Avenue and lasted 10 minutes.
August 2015HailLincolnwood-no account filed
May 2006HailLincolnwood-no account filed
July 2003HailLincolnwood-no account filed
April 1996HailLincolnwood-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
Sauganash1.2 miles24
North Park1.7 miles24
Edgebrook1.9 miles26
West Ridge2.0 miles24
Skokie2.0 miles21
Albany Park2.5 miles24
Mayfair2.5 miles24
Granville Gardens2.6 miles24

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 LincolnwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2025535The 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 412217. 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.