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Morton Grove, Illinois

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Niles Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60053. It stands on West Fork North Branch Chicago River. The Survey maps it on the Park Ridge quadrangle. 25,297 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Morton Grove within Cook County

On record in Morton Grove

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

Morton Grove grew from 23,270 to 25,297 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
201023,270
202025,297+2,027 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Morton Grove: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Morton Grove City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Niles City Dept of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Winnetka City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morton Grove in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove$10,000Several large trees were blown down near Dempster Street, approximately two blocks east of Interstate 94. One tree fell onto a car. Several 12 inch diameter trees were uprooted near the intersection of Laramie Avenue and Golf Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove$2,000Wind gusts were estimated to 70 mph. Numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Morton Grove.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-A tree was blown down in the backyard of a house taking down power lines.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-Trees were blown down onto trails and streets near the North Branch of the Chicago River in Golf and Morton Grove. Trees were also blown down near Greenwood Street and Marmora Avenue.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-Local broadcast media relayed a report of multiple tree branches down in Morton Grove near Frontage Rd and I-94.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-A large tree limb was blown down onto a road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-Trees were blown down across a road in the 8900 block of Shermer Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-Multiple trees were blown down.
July 2017HailMorton Grove-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-Multiple trees were blown down.
June 2008HailMorton Grove-Quarter size hail was reported at Dempster and Austin Avenue.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-Multiple large trees blown down in a residential area near Golf Road and Shermer Road.
March 2005HailMorton Grove-Penny sized hail was reported near the intersection of Golf Rd. and Harlem Ave.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-Six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 1997HailMorton Grove-Strong thunderstorms produced hail, 1 inch in diameter, and strong winds which downed trees and power lines.
November 2013HailMorton Grove-no account filed
May 2011HailMorton Grove-no account filed
April 2010HailMorton Grove-no account filed
August 2008HailMorton Grove-no account filed
April 2004HailMorton Grove-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMorton Grove-no account filed
August 2001HailMorton Grove-no account filed
May 2000HailMorton Grove-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
Golf1.4 miles19
Niles1.8 miles19
Glenview2.0 miles19
Skokie2.7 miles21
Edgebrook3.1 miles26
Edison3.6 miles26
Park Ridge3.7 miles19
Lincolnwood3.7 miles21

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 Morton GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1641893The 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 413865. 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.

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.