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Midlothian, Illinois

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Bremen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60445. The Survey maps it on the Blue Island quadrangle. 14,325 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Midlothian within Cook County

On record in Midlothian

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

Midlothian fell from 14,819 to 14,325 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
201014,819
202014,325-494 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Midlothian in 2005, burning under an 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
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIllinois State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Midlothian: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Markham City Dept. of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Yard No. 22 Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midlothian in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMidlothian-A fence panel was blown down near the intersection of 152nd Street and Kostner Avenue. A photo showed a large tree limb blown down into the street at the intersection of 151st Street and Kildare Avenue.
February 2024HailMidlothian-A report of 1.5 hail was relayed via mPING.
July 2023Heavy RainMidlothian-A private weather station, KILMIDLO4, recorded about 2 inches of rainfall in a 30 minute period.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMidlothian-Numerous trees were blown down.
April 2007FloodMidlothian-Ankle to knee deep water along low lying roadways.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMidlothian-A gust to 72 mph was measured at 147th and Cicero.
October 2007HailMidlothian-Quarter size hail was reported at 147th and Cicero.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMidlothian-Estimated gust to 65 mph at 147th and Cicero.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMidlothian-Measured gust to 74 mph. Twelve inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
July 2006FloodMidlothian-Eight to nine inches of water at Route 83 and Cicero Avenue.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMidlothian-no account filed
April 1996HailMidlothian-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
Robbins1.5 miles25
Posen2.0 miles25
Oak Forest2.1 miles25
Markham2.5 miles25
University Park2.8 miles25
Blue Island3.0 miles25
Dixmoor3.0 miles25
Crestwood3.1 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 MidlothianAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2500754The 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 413516. 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.