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Norridge, Illinois

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Chicago City. It lies in ZIP code area 60706. It stands on Crystal Creek. The Survey maps it on the River Forest quadrangle. 14,572 people lived here at the http count.

Norridge within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Norridge grew from 14,572 to 15,251 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
201014,572
202015,251+679 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 26 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Chicago city. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From Politics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois : Memorial Volume, 1787-1887; a Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1887 - Chicago City

Index To Content

Chapter I. - First Settler of Chicago, 5. Various Appellations of Chicago. .Garies' River, 6. The Main River Bed Changed. .Chicago in Virginia. .Treaty of Greenville. . Original Site of Chicago. .Illinois in Indiana Territory. .Fort Dearborn Established. .First Commandants of the Fort. .Massacre of 1S12, 7. Captain John and Lieutenant Wm.

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In the county-history sources

902,150 words on this township

Politics and Politicians of Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois : Memorial Volume, 1787-1887; a Complete Record of Municipal, County, State and National Politics from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, published 1887; ... History of Chicago, Illinois, published 1895; Historical Review of Chicago and Cook County and Selected Biography. A.N. Waterman ... Ed. and Author of Historical Review, published 1908 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Chicago City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Chicago City - 902,150 words.

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 Norridge: 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
Melrose Park City Eng. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Niles City Dept of Public WorksStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
River Forest City Eng - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Norridge in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNorridge$50,000In Harwood Heights, every block had either broken trees or tree limbs. Some streets were completely blocked by fallen trees. A few cars were damaged by fallen trees. One car was damaged by a live powerline when it started a fire. Numerous other powerlines were blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNorridge-Numerous trees and tree limbs were blown down. One of the hardest hit areas was between Gunison Street and Strong Street. Power lines and light poles were also blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNorridge-A window was blown out of a grocery store on Montrose Avenue. A large tree was uprooted on Maple Avenue, which fell onto a house causing siding and fascia damage.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNorridge-A video shared on social media showed a large tree that was snapped.
August 2018Heavy RainNorridge-Storm total rainfall of 2.63 inches was measured.
April 2016HailNorridge-Quarter size hail was reported near the intersection of Montrose and Ottawa.
May 2012HailNorridge-Multiple reports of hail up to the size of nickels were received between Norwood Park and Niles, including a report near the intersection of Touhy Avenue and Caldwell Avenue.
July 2003HailNorridge-Hail the size of quarters to walnuts was reported in Norridge.

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
Harwood Heights1.1 miles26
Western Dunning1.3 miles26
Dunning1.8 miles26
Schiller Park2.4 miles26
Edison2.4 miles26
Riverview2.6 miles26
Ellsworth2.6 miles26
River Grove2.6 miles26

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 NorridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2666488The 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 414553. 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.