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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.

Montgomery within Kane County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Montgomery 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.

YearPeople Change
201018,438
202020,262+1,824 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 2020

Regional 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/incendiarism1

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 April 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-0000121

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Feltes Pit No. 6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fox Ridge StoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fox Valley Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hafrenrichter Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kane County

Storms near this place

28 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2008HailMontgomery$5,000Several nickel to quarter size hail reports were received from Aurora. Hail damage was reported at a duplex on Johnston Drive near Jericho Road.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindMontgomery$5,000Sheet metal and insulation were torn off a soap factory by strong winds. Most of the damage was cosmetic, no structual damage was reported.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindMontgomery$1,000A 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 2008Thunderstorm WindMontgomery$500A 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 2025Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-Multiple areas with downed power lines were reported across the west side of Aurora.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-Numerous power lines were blown down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-A photo showed a large tree limb blown down that crushed the hood of a car.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-A tree and power lines were blown down on Rockwell Rd in Aurora.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-A tree roughly 12 to 14 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet thick fell onto a wire along Stephen Dr in Montgomery.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-Trees were downed onto power lines and vehicles near Prairie St and Edgelawn Dr in Aurora.
August 2025Heavy RainMontgomery-A private weather station recorded 4.94 of 24-hour rainfall, 4.46 of which fell between 2 and 6 AM CST.
April 2023HailMontgomery-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 2023Tornado (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 2022Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-A roof of an industrial building was damaged with debris on a roadway.
August 2021Heavy RainMontgomery-Rainfall of 4.10 inches was measured in 1 hour and 47 minutes.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-Tree damage was reported near Galena Boulevard and Canterbury Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-Numerous power lines were blown down on Aucutt Road.
June 2013HailMontgomery-Multiple reports of hail up to the size of 1.5 inches were received between Montgomery and Aurora.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-Winds to 60 mph were estimated near the intersection of Orchard Road and Galena Road.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-Estimated winds to 65 mph.
July 2004HailMontgomery-The hail was reported at the intersection of Rt. 30 and Rt. 31.
March 2026HailMontgomery-no account filed
March 2026HailMontgomery-no account filed
April 2023HailMontgomery-no account filed
March 2007Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMontgomery-no account filed
August 2003HailMontgomery-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kane 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
South Park2.3 miles14
Aurora2.5 miles15
Scraper-Moecherville3.6 miles14
Exposition View4.3 miles15
Marywood5.3 miles15
Prestbury5.3 miles13
North Aurora5.3 miles15
Randall Hills5.6 miles15

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 MontgomeryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2127297The 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.