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Lombard, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60148. The Survey maps it on the Lombard quadrangle. 44,476 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Lombard within DuPage County

On record in Lombard

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lombard grew from 43,165 to 44,476 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
201043,165
202044,476+1,311 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

2,155 words on this township

History Of Dupage County (1857), published 1857 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on York Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on York Township - 2,155 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lombard in 2005, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 June 2005Naturalunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DuPage County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lombard: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, 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
Downers Grove City PitStonePast Producer
Elmhurst Portable Plant #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Elmhurst Underground No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Glen Ellyn City PitStonePast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Village of Lombard PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this place

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lombard in 32 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindLombard$1,500,000Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines blown down. A garage door was blown in by the high winds, a roof was partially blown off, some trees fell onto houses. In Villa Park, at least 1,500 trees were either destroyed or heavily damaged and 2,000 structures in Villa Park were damaged.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindLombard$20,000Trees and power lines were blown down. Businesses on the northwest corner of Main Street and Roosevelt Road lost part of their roof and part of a gutter.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLombard$3,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down on the east side of Lombard.
August 2006LightningLombard$2,000Lightning struck a tree, which fell down and also blew out basement windows.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLombard-A photo was shared showing an uprooted tree.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLombard-Photos showed a tree limb 4 to 5 inches in diameter blown down.
June 2020FloodLombard-Several roads were closed due to mainly minor flooding in Lombard. A car was reported stalled in high water near Main Street. Rainfall of 1.76 inches was measured in 25 minutes.
August 2020Tornado (EF1)Lombard-A tornado with peak winds of 95 mph touched down near Main and Maple Streets, just east of Lilacia Park. The tornado moved northeast uprooting some trees and snapping other trees. More than 200 homes in Lombard suffered some amount of damage, a few suffered significant roof damage. The worst damage occurred near the Lombard Common just south of St. Charles Road. Tree damage continued along the path including part of a large tree blown down near Schafer Elementary School. A one foot diameter tree was blown down onto a house. Another house suffered minor roof and siding damage just north of the Jefferson Middle School and the tornado lifted northeast of the Jefferson Middle School.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLombard-Trees and power lines were blown down near Crescent Blvd and St. Charles Road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindLombard-A 30 foot tall Pine tree was uprooted and blocked a roadway.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindLombard-The top of a maple tree was broken off near East Washington Blvd and Main Street. The trunk was estimated at 1 foot diameter.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLombard-A large tree was blown down on a house and siding was blown off another house.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLombard-A three foot diameter tree was blown down onto a car on South Main Street. The car was not significantly damaged and no one in the car was injured.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLombard-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLombard-A wind gust to 65 mph was measured in Lombard.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLombard-A tree was blown down.
August 2007FloodLombard-Three inches of standing water on Interstate 355 at St. Charles Road.
May 2006HailLombard-Penny size hail reported at 22nd Street and Highland.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLombard-Trees were blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLombard-Numerous large trees were blown down on West Maple Street. One fallen tree punctured the roof of a house.
August 2003HailLombard-Hail ranged from the size of pennies at Illinois Route 64 and Route 53 to golf ball size hail along Main Street.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLombard-A wall was blown down at a construction site.
May 2025HailLombard-no account filed
April 2014HailLombard-no account filed
March 2005HailLombard-no account filed
October 2005HailLombard-no account filed
July 2004HailLombard-no account filed
May 2003HailLombard-no account filed
May 2003HailLombard-no account filed
July 2003HailLombard-no account filed
July 2003HailLombard-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLombard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage 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
Villa Park1.2 miles23
Flowerfield1.6 miles21
Glen Oak1.7 miles19
York Center1.9 miles23
South Addison2.0 miles23
Highland Hills2.1 miles21
Utopia2.7 miles23
North Glen Ellyn3.0 miles19

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 LombardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q404610The 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 421912. 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.