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.
Population over time
2 figuresNorthbrook 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 33,170 | |
| 2020 | 35,222 | +2,052 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 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.
- 1900 USGS Highwood quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1928 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Racine quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Waukegan quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000
- 2000 USGS Highland Park quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Glencoe City Engr. - Own Crews | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Northbrook City Dept of Public Work | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Lightning | Northbrook | 1 killed | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northbrook | $25,000 | A light pole, multiple trees, and numerous fences were toppled. Tree limbs 15 to 20 feet in length were blown down. |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northbrook | - | Multiple 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Northbrook | - | 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 2011 | Hail | Northbrook | - | Penny size hail was reported at the intersection of Waukegan Road and Shermer Road. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northbrook | - | 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 2009 | Heavy Rain | Northbrook | - | Rainfall of 3.57 inches was reported in the past 24 hours. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northbrook | - | More than 50 trees were snapped or damaged throughout Northbrook. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northbrook | - | Large tree limbs blown down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northbrook | - | Measured gust to 66 mph. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Northbrook | - | Tennis ball size hail was reported in Northbrook. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northbrook | - | 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 2014 | Hail | Northbrook | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Northbrook | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Northbrook | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shermerville | 0.0 miles | 22 | |
| Northbrook Manor | 0.2 miles | 22 | |
| Highlands | 0.3 miles | 22 | |
| Northbrook Villa | 0.4 miles | 22 | |
| Sycamore Lane | 0.5 miles | 22 | |
| Northfield Acres | 0.5 miles | 22 | |
| Northbrook Oaks | 0.5 miles | 22 | |
| Northbrook Estates | 0.5 miles | 22 |
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 Northbrook | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q570986 | 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 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.









