Montgomery, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Aurora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60538. The Survey maps it on the Aurora South quadrangle. 20,262 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.
On record in Montgomery
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
Gray-Watkins Milllisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresMontgomery grew from 18,438 to 20,262 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 | 18,438 | |
| 2020 | 20,262 | +1,824 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1925 USGS Yorkville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Aurora South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Yorkville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Aurora South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Montgomery in 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 April 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Illinois Division of Forestry Resources | 20-0000121 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Montgomery: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Feltes Pit No. 6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fox Ridge Stone | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fox Valley Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hafrenrichter Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
28 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montgomery in 28 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Hail | Montgomery | $5,000 | Several nickel to quarter size hail reports were received from Aurora. Hail damage was reported at a duplex on Johnston Drive near Jericho Road. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | $5,000 | Sheet metal and insulation were torn off a soap factory by strong winds. Most of the damage was cosmetic, no structual damage was reported. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | $1,000 | A 100 foot tall maple tree fell onto a house on Prairie Street. The tree broke a window and pulled off parts of a gutter. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | $500 | A patio swing was picked up and thrown over a fence. Cast iron patio furniture was mangled. A trampoline was blown several houses down a street. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | Multiple areas with downed power lines were reported across the west side of Aurora. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | Numerous power lines were blown down. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | A photo showed a large tree limb blown down that crushed the hood of a car. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | A tree and power lines were blown down on Rockwell Rd in Aurora. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | A tree roughly 12 to 14 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet thick fell onto a wire along Stephen Dr in Montgomery. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | Trees were downed onto power lines and vehicles near Prairie St and Edgelawn Dr in Aurora. |
| August 2025 | Heavy Rain | Montgomery | - | A private weather station recorded 4.94 of 24-hour rainfall, 4.46 of which fell between 2 and 6 AM CST. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Montgomery | - | Hail up to golf ball size lasted for five minutes. Numerous glass greenhouses were damaged from the hail at a garden center along Lake Street. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Montgomery | - | Just a couple of minutes after touching down in far northern Kendall County, this tornado crossed into Kane County in Montgomery just west of Albright Rd. The tornado had caused minor damage to an outbuilding while still in Kendall County but most of the damage in Kane County was to trees. The tornado lifted on the south side of Aurora near the intersection of Hill Ave and Binder St. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | A roof of an industrial building was damaged with debris on a roadway. |
| August 2021 | Heavy Rain | Montgomery | - | Rainfall of 4.10 inches was measured in 1 hour and 47 minutes. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | Tree damage was reported near Galena Boulevard and Canterbury Road. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | Numerous power lines were blown down on Aucutt Road. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Montgomery | - | Multiple reports of hail up to the size of 1.5 inches were received between Montgomery and Aurora. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | Winds to 60 mph were estimated near the intersection of Orchard Road and Galena Road. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | Estimated winds to 65 mph. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Montgomery | - | The hail was reported at the intersection of Rt. 30 and Rt. 31. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Montgomery | - | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Hail | Montgomery | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | Montgomery | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montgomery | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Montgomery | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Park | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Aurora | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Scraper-Moecherville | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Exposition View | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Marywood | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Prestbury | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| North Aurora | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Randall Hills | 5.6 miles | 15 |
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 Montgomery | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2127297 | 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 413745. 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.






