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.
Population over time
2 figuresLong 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,043 | |
| 2020 | 8,366 | +323 (+4%) |
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 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 2012Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 |
| 4 July 2012 | Fireworks | 19 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 12-0848 |
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filter Materials Perlite Plant | Perlite | Producer | ||
| Aptakisic Sand Corp. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Cow Hey Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Grove | - | A 40 foot tall, 10 inch diameter pine tree snapped about 10 feet up and landed on a house in Long Grove. |
| February 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Grove | - | Power lines were downed along Aptakisic Rd in Long Grove. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Grove | - | A road was closed due to a fallen tree at Old McHenry and Cuba Roads. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Grove | - | A large tree limb was blown down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Grove | - | Trees two feet in diameter were snapped and utility poles were blown down near the intersection of Checker Road and Schaeffer Road. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Grove | - | Trees were blown down. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Long Grove | - | no account filed |
| December 2018 | Hail | Long Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2014 | Hail | Long Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Long Grove | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Long Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Long Grove | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country Club Estates | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Marden Estates | 1.3 miles | 21 | |
| Tall Oaks | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| Beaver Creek | 2.3 miles | 21 | |
| Meadowridge | 2.3 miles | 21 | |
| Prestonfield | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Farmington | 2.5 miles | 21 | |
| Hawthorn Knolls | 2.7 miles | 21 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2339121 | 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 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.








