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Northbrook, Illinois

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Northfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 60062. The Survey maps it on the Highland Park quadrangle. 35,222 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Northbrook within Cook County

Population over time

2 figures

Northbrook grew from 33,170 to 35,222 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
201033,170
202035,222+2,052 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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 Northbrook: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Deerfield PitStonePast Producer
Glencoe City Engr. - Own CrewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Northbrook City Dept of Public WorkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cook County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northbrook in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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 1996LightningNorthbrook1 killedno account filed
September 2014Thunderstorm WindNorthbrook$25,000A light pole, multiple trees, and numerous fences were toppled. Tree limbs 15 to 20 feet in length were blown down.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindNorthbrook-Multiple 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2019FloodNorthbrook-Heavy rain caused an area of localized flooding near a clogged drainage pipe at the intersection of Thornwood Lane and Meadow Road. Motorists in a stalled vehicle were assisted by the fire department.
May 2011HailNorthbrook-Penny size hail was reported at the intersection of Waukegan Road and Shermer Road.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindNorthbrook-Numerous tree limbs 15 to 20 feet in length were blown down in the area of Thornwood and Laurel Lanes and Keystone and Keist Avenues.
August 2009Heavy RainNorthbrook-Rainfall of 3.57 inches was reported in the past 24 hours.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindNorthbrook-More than 50 trees were snapped or damaged throughout Northbrook.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNorthbrook-Large tree limbs blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindNorthbrook-Measured gust to 66 mph.
July 2003HailNorthbrook-Tennis ball size hail was reported in Northbrook.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindNorthbrook-Tree limbs and power lines were downed in northeast Mc Henry County. Lindenhurst Police reported a 60 mph wind gust. Tree limbs were blown down at Deerfield and Northbrook. A large window was blown out at the Tollway Oasis at Lake Forest. A large tree was blown down at Prospect Heights.No report available for sd9508.CIL
April 2014HailNorthbrook-no account filed
May 2014HailNorthbrook-no account filed
May 2014HailNorthbrook-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
Shermerville0.0 miles22
Northbrook Manor0.2 miles22
Highlands0.3 miles22
Northbrook Villa0.4 miles22
Sycamore Lane0.5 miles22
Northfield Acres0.5 miles22
Northbrook Oaks0.5 miles22
Northbrook Estates0.5 miles22

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 NorthbrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q570986The 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 414688. 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.