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Lynwood, Illinois

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60411. The Survey maps it on the Calumet City quadrangle. 9,116 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Lynwood within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Lynwood grew from 9,007 to 9,116 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
20109,007
20209,116+109 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lynwood in 2009, burning about 1 acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana Dunes National LakeshoreHOOSIER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lynwood: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Al Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thorton Plant LimeLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Chicago Hghts City EngStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Thornton Underground Mine No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gary #1 PlantClayPlant
Gary #8 PlantClayPlant
Yard M Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lynwood in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2025Tornado (EF0)Lynwood-A tornado touched down near Joe Orr Road west of Torrence Avenue in Lynwood. This brief tornado caused damage to the roofs of two industrial buildings with winds estimated at 85 mph. Pieces of debris were blown onto Torrence Avenue. The tornado dissipated shortly after it crossed Torrence Avenue.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLynwood-A tree was blown down in a yard.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLynwood-Wind gusts were measured to 62 mph near the intersection of 394 and Lincoln Highway.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindLynwood-A six inch diameter tree limb was blown down on Route 394, a half mile north of Glenwood Dyer Road.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLynwood-no account filed
May 2013HailLynwood-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
Lansing2.6 miles27
Oakglen2.7 miles27
Sauk Village3.0 miles16
Ford Heights3.1 miles27
Glenwood3.6 miles27
Bernice3.7 miles27
Thornton4.7 miles27
Globe5.0 miles27

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 LynwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q600928The 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 423594. 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.