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Long Grove, 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 60047. The Survey maps it on the Wheeling quadrangle. 8,366 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Long Grove within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Long Grove grew from 8,043 to 8,366 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
20108,043
20208,366+323 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

1,027 words on this township

The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877 names this settlement in its chapter on Vernon Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Lutheran Protestant United Congregation at Long Grove was organized in 1847. Thefirst regular appointed minister was Mr. Simon Damsen ; before him Mr. Francis A. Hoffmann, formerly banker in Chicago, preached there a few times. The first members were :

Passage source: The Past and Present of Lake County, Illinois, published 1877.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Vernon Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Long Grove in 2012, burning about 24 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
Fireworks2

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
8 July 2012Fireworks5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-2395-27
4 July 2012Fireworks19 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources12-0848

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

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 Long Grove: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. 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
Filter Materials Perlite PlantPerliteProducer
Aptakisic Sand Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cow Hey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Long Grove in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLong Grove-A 40 foot tall, 10 inch diameter pine tree snapped about 10 feet up and landed on a house in Long Grove.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindLong Grove-A stretch of IL-83 in Long Grove was covered in tree debris, namely small to medium branches. Crews were also seen working on a leaning power pole in the area, but it's uncertain if this was a result of the storm or preexisting.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLong Grove-Power lines were downed along Aptakisic Rd in Long Grove.
July 2023Tornado (EF0)Long Grove-This tornado started near Country Lane off Old McHenry Road in Long Grove. Damage along the path of the tornado consisted of snapped trees and tree limbs spread across Twin Orchard Country Club, continuing east-northeast towards Twin Groves Middle School. The tornado appeared to lift over Woodland Park in Buffalo Grove near Twin Groves Middle School.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLong Grove-A road was closed due to a fallen tree at Old McHenry and Cuba Roads.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLong Grove-A large tree limb was blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLong Grove-Trees two feet in diameter were snapped and utility poles were blown down near the intersection of Checker Road and Schaeffer Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLong Grove-Trees were blown down.
April 2023HailLong Grove-no account filed
December 2018HailLong Grove-no account filed
April 2014HailLong Grove-no account filed
August 2003HailLong Grove-no account filed
July 2003HailLong Grove-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindLong Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Country Club Estates1.3 miles21
Marden Estates1.3 miles21
Tall Oaks2.2 miles21
Beaver Creek2.3 miles21
Meadowridge2.3 miles21
Prestonfield2.5 miles21
Farmington2.5 miles21
Hawthorn Knolls2.7 miles21

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 Long GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2339121The 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 412564. 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.